Thomas Holliday Barker

Thomas Holliday Barker (6 July 1818 – 26 June 1889) was an English temperance and vegetarianism advocate.

Thomas Holliday Barker
Born6 July 1818
Peterborough, England
Died26 June 1889 (1889-06-27) (aged 70)
Fallowfield, England
OccupationTemperance and vegetarianism advocate

Biography

Halliday was born in Peterborough on 6 July 1818.[1][2][3] As a young man he was employed as a clerk for a wine merchant. He worked for Wood & Westhead warehousemen in Manchester from 1844–1851.[4] Then he became an accountant and commission agent at an office on Princess Street, Manchester.[3][4] He suffered from poor health and converted to teetotalism.[3] In 1837, he signed an abstinence pledge and became secretary of the Spalding Temperance Society.[2]

In 1843, he refused to drink the fermented wine at Wesleyan chapel in Lincoln. This caused controversy and he was disciplined by the church so severed his connection with them.[2] He appealed for support to Frederic Richard Lees.[3] Barker was a founding member of the United Kingdom Alliance (UKA) and its secretary from 1853–1883.[3] He was paid well at £500 a year and became a well known temperance leader in Britain.[3] He married Millicent Bates in 1844, they had four sons.[3]

Barker communicated with American temperance advocates such as Edward C. Delavan and Neal Dow.[3] He was a founder of the Union and Emancipation Society. Barker was a vegetarian. In the 1850s, he served in the committee of the Manchester and Salford Vegetarian Association. He authored the vegetarian book, Thoughts, Facts and Hints on Human Dietetics.[3] He was influential in converting Francis William Newman to vegetarianism.[3] Barker was an early member of the Vegetarian Society.[5]

Barker died in Fallowfield on 26 June 1889.[4]

Selected publications

  • Thoughts, Facts and Hints on Human Dietetics (1870)
gollark: If you convert, I don't know, a few hundred tons of mass to energy, you could *probably* blow up the earth?
gollark: Ah yes, so now you need to have insanely huge amounts of energy, very helpful.
gollark: You do need to have available matter to convert on the other end, and the whole concept is very hard to implement.
gollark: If you disæssemble something into its constituent particles or something, record every detail of their state (which might be impossible too?) and transmit it to another thing which reassembles it, that's lightspeed teleportation, ish.
gollark: I don't think they're canonically confirmed as doing that, and also it makes no sense.

References

  1. The Annals of Manchester: A Chronological Record from the Earliest Times to the End of 1885. Manchester: John Heywood, 1886. p. 264
  2. Cherrington, Ernest Hurst. (1925). Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem, Volume 1. American Issue Publishing Company. p. 275
  3. Blocker, Jack S. Fahey, David M; Tyrrell, Ian R. (2003). Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Enclyopedia, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. pp. 87-88. ISBN 1-57607-833-7
  4. Boase, Frederic. (1965). Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons Who Have Died Between the Years 1851-1900, Volume IV. Frank Cass & Co. p. 267
  5. Forward, Charles W. (1898). Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England. London: The Ideal Publishing Union. pp. 44-45
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