John Barker (fl. ca. 1471–1482) was first recorded as a King's Scholar at

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about 1471. He went to King's College in 1474, was elected a fellow in 1477, and graduated MA in 1479. His Etonian connection may indicate that he was from the south of England. Barker taught logic to "sophisters" (second-year undergraduates) using his own text, the '' Scutum inexpugnabile''. No copy survives, but it was probably an introduction to Aristotelian

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and modal grammar.

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, who came up to King's in 1499, wrote a commendatory preface for it in the early 16th century, indicating that it was then still in use in the college. Barker left King's in 1482, approximately the year

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and

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came to Cambridge, and later joined the Franciscans. The date and place of his death are unknown.

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