Life

Barker was of the same family as the Hebraist Samuel Barker

Samuel Barker (Hebraist)

-Life:Barker was the son of Augustin Barker of South Luffenham and Thomasyn Tryst of Maidford, Northants, and inherited the Lordship of the Manor of Lyndon, Rutland by the bequest of his father's second cousin Sir Thomas Barker, 2nd Bt of Lyndon . Sir Thomas was a member of the 'Order of Little...

, and son of George Barker, tailor, of Great Russell Street

Great Russell Street

Great Russell Street is a street in Bloomsbury, central London, England. It is the location of the main entrance of the British Museum to the north. The Congress Centre of the Trades Union Congress is located at number 28...

, London. He was admitted on the foundation of St. Paul's School, London 10 May 1756, aged twelve. He became Pauline Exhibitioner at Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

 in 1761, Perry Exhibitioner 1764–7, and took his degree of B.A. in 1765. He was also a fellow of Dulwich College

Dulwich College

Dulwich College is an independent school for boys in Dulwich, southeast London, England. The college was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of "God's Gift". It currently has about 1,600 boys,...

, Surrey, and took holy orders.

He was elected master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School may refer to:* Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne, England* Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford, Lincolnshire, England* Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Barnet, England...

at Carmarthen

Carmarthen

Carmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....

 22 July 1767, an office which he held for the rest of his life. He was also rector of Bleddfa from 1793.

Works

He published a short work, entitled ‘Grammar of the Hebrew Language

Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...

adapted to the use of schools, with Biblical examples,’ 1774; and a ‘Hebrew and English Lexicon,’ 1812.