Thomas Stephen Caulker (died 1871), also known as Bar Tham, was the chief of Kagboro in

Sierra Leone Protectorate The Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone (informally British Sierra Leone) was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone from 1808 to 1961, part of the British Empire from the abolitionism era until the decolonisation era. The Crow ...

(1888–1898). Thomas Stephen Caulker was the son of

Stephen Caulker Stephen Caulker (died 1810) was a king of the Banana Islands off the coast of present-day Sierra Leone. He had some distant Anglo-Irish ancestry and was mostly Sherbro in ancestry. Caulker was part of a hereditary dynasty that ruled as chiefs of ...

and a member of the Caulker family. They descended from the two African-English sons of

Thomas Corker Thomas Corker (1669/1670 – 10 September 1700) was known as an English agent for the Royal African Company on York Island (now Sherbro, Sierra Leone). He married a Sherbro princess and had two sons with her before his early death. The sons a ...

(1670-1700) and his Sherbro wife, known as Seniora Doll. Corker was an agent with the

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in Sherbro country, now part of Sierra Leone.

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