Ernest Barker (1874-1960; ODNB), classical scholar and first professor of political science, University of Cambridge, 1928-39; working-class and Congregationalist childhood; won scholarships to Manchester Grammar School then to Balliol Coll., Oxford; embraced Anglicanism during the First World War; Principal of King's College London, 1920; remained committed to the Church establishment, despite criticism of parliament's rejection of the revised prayer book in 1927-8; political thought coloured by the influence of Aristotle and Burke, together with a strong sense of Englishness; life-long Liberal; Kt, 1944; see also Volumes 54, 59, 73, 75.

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• 19 Sep 1929
• 28 Aug 1930