Sir John Barker-Mill, 1st Baronet (4 December 1803 – 20 February 1860) was an English cleric and

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er.

Early life

He was the son of John Barker of

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, born at Wareham. He was educated at

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, and matriculated at

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in 1822. He subsequently matriculated in 1825 at

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, where he graduated B.A. in 1828, M.A. in 1831. Barker was ordained deacon in 1827, by

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, and priest in 1828 by

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. He became a curate at

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in 1827, and was vicar there from 1828 to 1835. In 1831 he became vicar too at

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, also in Hampshire.

Later life

In accordance to the last will and testament of his maternal uncle Sir Charles Mill, 10th Baronet, John Barker took the additional name of Mill by Royal Licence on 8 May 1835. He was created a

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"of

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in the

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" on 16 March 1836. That year he gave up his clerical career. In 1842 three local gentlemen, Thomas Chamberlayne, Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst and Barker-Mill himself, financed the development of the

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. Barker-Mill took up racehorse training. In 1845, he as the owner of the winner of the Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall races was presented with a silver vase made by silversmith John Samuel Hunt (1785-1865) as commissioned by

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. The vase, known as "Her Majesty's Vase", was rediscovered by the family in 2022. He died at

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, Hampshire on 20 February 1860.

Cricket

Barker-Mill made a single first-class appearance for

against the

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in 1842. In his only first-class match, he was absent hurt in both of Hampshire's innings.

Marriage

John Barker married Jane (c. 1798–1884) daughter of Col. William Swinburne on 14 August 1828 at Keynsham, Somerset. They had no issue. Lady Barker-Mill died aged 85 at Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire on 2 January 1884.

References

External links

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