Ernest Barker

Born in Woodley, Cheshire; and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford,[3] Barker was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1898 to 1905, St John's College, Oxford from 1909 to 1913, and New College, Oxford from 1913 to 1920.[4] He spent a brief time at the London School of Economics.[5] He was Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927,[6] and subsequently became Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge in 1928,[7] being the first holder of the chair endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation.[8]

In June 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council.[9] He was knighted in 1944. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958.[10]

Barker was married twice, firstly in 1900 to Emily Isabel Salkeld, with whom he had a son and two daughters; she died in 1924. In 1927 he married Olivia Stuart Horner; they had a son and a daughter.[4]

Barker died on 17 February 1960.[3][4] There is a memorial stone to him in St Botolph's Church, Cambridge.

• The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle (1906)
• The Republic of Plato (1906)
• Ernest Barker, H. W. Carless Davis, C. R. L. Fletcher, Arthur Hassall, L. G. Wickham Legg, F. Morgan, Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case, by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914)
• Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to the present day: 1848-1914 (1915)
• Greek Political Theory: Plato and his Predecessors (1918)
• Ireland in the last Fifty Years: 1866-1918 (1919)
• Translator's Introduction (1934) to Otto von Gierke, Natural Law and the Theory of Society (1934)
• Oliver Cromwell and the English People (1937)
• Britain and the British People (1942)
• Reflections on Government (1942)
• "The Development of Public Services in Western Europe 1660-1930" 1944[11]
• The Politics of Aristotle (1946)
• Character of England edited (1947)
• Traditions of Civility (1948)
• Principles of Social and Political Theory (1951)
• Essays on Government[12] (1951)
• The European Inheritance edited with Sir George Clark and Professor P Vaucher (3 volumes, 1954)
• Age and Youth: Memories of Three Universities and the Father of Man (1953)
• Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau (1956)

• Author and Book Info.com
• Arthur Aughey (2007) The Politics of Englishness; Manchester University Press
• Andrezj Olechnowicz, 'Liberal anti-fascism in the 1930s: The case of Sir Ernest Barker', Albion 36, 2005, pp. 636–660
• Julia Stapleton (1994), Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker
• Julia Stapleton (2007), Ernest Barker in Brack & Randall (eds.), The Dictionary of Liberal Thought, Politico's Publishing
• Julia Stapleton (editor) Polis, vol. 23:2 (2006), Ernest Barker: A Centenary Tribute

Works written by or about Ernest Barker at Wikisource

• Political Studies Association Hall of Fame
• "Archival material relating to Ernest Barker". UK National Archives.