Ernest Barker
British political scientist (1874–1960)
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Sir Ernest Barker FBA (23 September 1874 – 17 February 1960) was an English political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927.[1]
Ernest Barker | |
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Barker in the 1890s | |
| Born | 23 September 1874 |
| Died | 17 February 1960 (age 85) |
Burial place | St Botolph's Church, Cambridge |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Principal of King's College London |
| Spouse(s) | Emily Isabel Salkeld (1900–1924) Olivia Stuart Horner (1927–1960) |
| Children | 5 |
Life and career
Ernest Barker was born in Woodley, Cheshire, and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford.[2] Barker was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1898 to 1905, St John's College, Oxford, from 1909 to 1913, and New College, Oxford, from 1913 to 1920.[3] He spent a brief time at the London School of Economics.[4] He was Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927,[5] and subsequently became Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge in 1928,[6] being the first holder of the chair endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation.[7]
In June 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council.[8] He was knighted in 1944. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958.[9]
Barker was married twice, firstly in 1900 to Emily Isabel Salkeld, with whom he had a son and two daughters; she died in 1924. In 1927 he married Olivia Stuart Horner; they had a son, Nicolas Barker,[10] and a daughter.[3]
Barker died on 17 February 1960.[2][3] There is a memorial stone to him in St Botolph's Church, Cambridge.
Works
- The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle (1906)[11]
- The Republic of Plato (1906)
- . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
- Ernest Barker, H. W. Carless Davis, C. R. L. Fletcher, Arthur Hassall, L. G. Wickham Legg, F. Morgan, Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case, by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914)
- Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to the present day: 1848-1914 (1915)
- Greek Political Theory: Plato and his Predecessors (1918)
- Ireland in the last Fifty Years: 1866-1918 (1919)
- The Crusades (1923). A later edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica article, edited with additional notes.[12]
- Church, State and Studies: Essays. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd. 1930.
- Translator's Introduction (1934) to Otto von Gierke, Natural Law and the Theory of Society (1934)
- Oliver Cromwell and the English People (1937)
- Britain and the British People (1942)
- Reflections on Government (1942)
- "The Development of Public Services in Western Europe 1660-1930" (1944)[13]
- The Politics of Aristotle (1946)
- Character of England edited (1947)
- Traditions of Civility (1948)
- Principles of Social and Political Theory (1951)
- Essays On Government (1951)
- (introduction to:) Golden Ages of the Great Cities (1952)
- (as editor with George Clark & Paul Vaucher) The European Inheritance (3 volumes, 1954)
- Age and Youth: Memories of Three Universities and the Father of Man (1953)
- Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau (1956)
