Ernest Barker Explained

Ernest Barker
Birth Date:	23 September 1874
Birth Place:	Woodley, Cheshire, England
Death Date:	17 February 1960 (age 85)
Burial Place:	St Botolph's Church, Cambridge
Alma Mater:	Balliol College, Oxford
Occupation:	Principal of King's College London
Children:	5

Sir Ernest Barker (23 September 1874 – 17 February 1960)^[1] was an English political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927.

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.

Barker died on 17 February 1960. 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)
• Author:Ernest Barker . 1911 . 1.
• 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]
• Book: Church, State and Studies: Essays . Methuen & Co., Ltd. . London . 1930 . registration.
• 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^[14] (1951)
• The European Inheritance, edited with Sir George Clark and Professor P. Vaucher (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)

Further reading

• Author and Book Info.com
• Arthur Aughey (2007) The Politics of Englishness; Manchester University Press
• Andrzej Olechnowicz, 'Liberal anti-fascism in the 1930s: The case of Sir Ernest Barker', Albion 36, 2005, pp. 636–660
• Julia Stapleton (1994), Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker
• Julia Stapleton (2007), Ernest Barker in Brack & Randall (eds.), The Dictionary of Liberal Thought, Politico's Publishing
• Julia Stapleton (editor) Polis, vol. 23:2 (2006), Ernest Barker: A Centenary Tribute

External links

• • Political Studies Association Hall of Fame
  • Web site: Ernest Barker. JSTOR.

Notes and References

1. Barker, Sir Ernest (1874–1960), political theorist. 2020-10-29. 2004. en. 10.1093/ref:odnb/30588.
2. "Sir Ernest Barker" The Times (London, England), Friday, Feb 19, 1960; pg. 13; Issue 54699
3. Book: Levens. R.G.C.. Merton College Register 1900–1964. 1964. Basil Blackwell. Oxford. 4.
4. Web site: Sir Ernest Barker Prize Winners. www.psa.ac.uk.
5. Web site: 1938 Four by Sir Ernest Barker, Used - AbeBooks. 2020-10-29. www.abebooks.com. en.
6. June 1956. Britain and the British People. By Sir Ernest Barker. (London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1955. Pp. xii, 186. $2.00.). American Political Science Review. en. 50. 2. 579. 10.1017/S0003055400229997. 1537-5943.
7. Web site: 1938 SIR ERNEST BARKER Four Page HANDWRITTEN LETTER by SIR ERNEST BARKER: (1938) 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s) Manuscript / Paper Collectible Blank Verso Books. 2020-10-29. www.abebooks.com. en.
8. The Liberal Magazine, 1936
9. Web site: Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 17 May 2011.
10. Book: Who's Who 1998 . A & C Black . 103.
11. Review of The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by E. Barker. The Athenaeum. 4159. July 13, 1907. 37.
12. Barker, E. (1923). The Crusades. London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford.
13. In Europe in the Eighteenth Century 1713-1783 by M S Anderson
14. https://archive.org/details/essaysongovernme010369mbp Essays On Government by Ernest Barker