William Barker Daniel
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William Barker Daniel (1754–1833) was an English cleric and writer on field sports.
The son of William Daniel, an attorney, he was born in Colchester. He was educated at Felsted School and Christ's College, Cambridge, earning his B.A. in 1787 and his M.A. in 1790.[1] He was never beneficed. Although he took holy orders in the Church of England, his name is not in Richard Gilbert's List of Beneficed Clergy (1829).[2] He did receive an appointment as private chaplain to the Prince of Wales, in 1788, which he is thought to have retained for most of his life.[3]
Daniel indulged in sporting tastes to a degree which shocked even a tolerant age. A correspondent in the Gentleman's Magazine of 1802 wrote of him as "fitter to act the character of Nimrod than that of a dignitary in the church of England". At the end of 1833 he died in Garden Row, within the rules of the King's Bench, where he had resided for 20 years.[2]
