EDMUND

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• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

HENRY

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• EDMUND HENRY BARKER (1788–1839)

BARKER (1788–1839)  , English classical scholar, was born at Hollym in Yorkshire . He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a scholar in 1807, but left the university without a degree, being prevented by religious scruples from taking the oath then required . He had previously obtained (in 1809) the Browne medal for Greek and Latin epigrams . After acting as amanuensis to the famous Samuel Parr, the vicar of Hatton in Warwickshire, he married and settled down at Thetford in Norfolk, where he lived for about twenty-five years . He was in the habit of adding the initials O.T.N . (of Thetford, Norfolk) to the title-page of his published works . In later life he became involved in a law-suit in connexion with a will, and thus exhausted his means . In 1837–1838 he was a prisoner for debt in the king's bench and in the Fleet . He died in London on the 21St of March 1839 . Barker was a prolific writer on classical and other subjects . In addition to contributing to the Classical Journal, he edited portions of several classical authors for the use of schools . He was one of the first commentators to write notes in English instead of Latin .

In a

volume of letters he disputed the claims of Sir Philip Francis to the authorship of the Letters of Junius; his Parriana (1828) is a vast and ill-digested compilation of literary anecdotes and criticisms . He also saw through the press the English edition of Lempriere's Classical Dictionary (revised by Anthon) and of Webster's English Dictionary . It is as a lexicographer, however, that Barker is chiefly known . While at Hatton, he conceived the design of a new edition of Stephanus's Thesaurus Graecae Linguae . The work was undertaken by A . J . Valpy, and, although not expressly stated, it was understood that Barker was the responsible editor . When a few parts had appeared, it was severely criticized in the Quarterly Review (xxii., 182o) by Blomfield; the result was the curtailment of the original plan of the work and the omission of Barker's name in connexion with it . It was completed in twelve volumes (1816-1828) . The strictures of the Quarterly were answered by Barker in his Aristarchus Anti-Blomfieldianus, which, although unconvincing, was in turn answered by Bishop Monk . He also published notes on the Etymologicum Gudianum, and collaborated with Professor Dunbar of Edinburgh in a Greek and English Lexicon (1831) . Theeditio princeps (1820) of the treatise attributed to Arcadius, Ilepi rovwv, was published by him from a Paris MS .

Continental scholars entertained a more favourable opinion of him than those of his own country . He expressed contempt for the minute verbal criticism of the Porsonian school, in which he was himself deficient . An account of his life will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for May 1839 ; see also Notes and Queries (6th series , xii. p . 443), where a full list of his works is given . BARKER'S MILL, a mechanical contrivance invented by a Dr Barker about the end of the 17th century . It consisted of a hollow vertical cylinder, provided with a number of horizontal arms fitted with lateral apertures; the contrivance is mounted so as to rotate about the vertical axis . By allowing water to enter the vertical tube, a rotation, due to the discharge through the lateral orifices, is set up .