Author: Barker, Samuel
Biography:
BARKER, Samuel Loney (1777-1836: ancestry.co.uk)
Baptised in Yarmouth on 17 Dec. 1777, he was the son of Samuel Barker and his wife Elizabeth Norfor who had married on 1 Jan. 1777. He was admitted to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on 3 Sept. 1795 (BA 1800, MA 1803) and ordained a priest in 1802. He served as a curate at Burgh Castle (then part of Suffolk), Southery in Norfolk, and Tannington in Suffolk. Barker was also chaplain to the Duke of York and, subsequently, the Duke of Cambridge. He married Jane Ray in Tannington on 13 July 1813. His book of verse, privately printed for family and friends, memorialises three infant children (two daughters and a son) and his wife who died, aged 27, on 19 Aug. 1820. One daughter, Emma Lorina, survived beyond infancy. In 1832 he was made rector at Carlton St. Peter, Norfolk. He died after suffering a fractured skull from being hit by a runaway horse in Regent’s Circus, London, on 5 Feb. 1836. (A notice of his death in GM gives his middle name as Lorey.) His four other publications are sermons (1815, 1816, 1820, 1830). (ancestry.co.uk 14 Nov. 2022; ACAD; CCEd, Sherborne Mercury 15 Feb. 1836)