Alfred Charles Barker (1819–1873) was a New Zealand medical doctor and photographer. Barker was born on 5 January 1819 at Hackney,

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in England. Barker was the fifth child of Joseph Gibbs Barker and Sarah Pritchett Bousfield. He studied medicine at

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. He and his wife Emma (née Bacon) arrived at Lyttelton on the ''

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'' on 16 December 1850 and settled in

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, where they had five children. Barker died on 20 March 1873 and was buried in the Barbadoes Street Cemetery.

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