Edward Barber (born Brighouse, 19 September 1841 – died Chester, 23 July 1914) was

Archdeacon of Chester The Archdeacon of Chester is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the diocese of Chester. The area in which she, or he, has statutory duties is the Archdeaconry of Chester – those duties include some pastoral care and disciplinary supervision of ...

from 1886 until his death. Born into an ecclesiastical family,His father was the ''Rev. Thomas Evetts'', sometime Rector of

Monks Risborough Monks Risborough is a village and ecclesiastical parish in the civil parish of Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England, lying between Princes Risborough and Great Kimble. The village lies at the foot of the northern scarp of the Chiltern Hi ...

> ‘BARBER, Ven. Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
accessed 25 March 2013
/ref> Barber was educated at

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, and

Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College ( ) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete. It is one of the wealthiest Oxford colleges, as of 2022, and ...

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in 1865, he was an Assistant Master at St Peter's College, Radley, then an Inspector of Schools in the

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from 1872 and 1983; Rector of

Chalfont St Giles Chalfont St Giles is a village and civil parish in southeast Buckinghamshire, England. It is in a group of villages called The Chalfonts, which also includes Chalfont St Peter and Little Chalfont. It lies on the edge of the Chiltern Hills, we ...

from 1883 to 1986; and a

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Chester Cathedral Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester. It is located in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. The cathedral, formerly the abbey church of a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saint ...

from then on.

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1841 births People from Brighouse People educated at St Peter's School, York Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Archdeacons of Chester 1914 deaths {{York-archdeacon-stub