Samuel Barker (Hebraist)

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Samuel Barker (1686–1759) was an English Hebraist.

Life

Barker was the son of Augustin Barker of

Wadham College, University of Oxford in June 1704 and graduated B.A. on 13 February 1707/8.[4]

In 1717 Samuel married Sarah, only daughter of

Clare College, University of Cambridge.[9]

Works

He wrote (in Latin) several learned tracts, which were collected and published (1761) in one quarto volume after his death, together with a Hebrew grammar, on which he had long been engaged.[10] John Nichols said of it, 'This was a juvenile production – the produce of the ingenious Author's leisure hours.'[11] It contained:

  • Ancient Hebrew Poesy Restored
  • On the
    Anacreontic
    songs
  • On Greek accents
  • Ancient Ionic writings
  • On consonant and vowel letters
  • On the pronunciation of the Hebrew language

He was the author of a letter, dated 7 November 1723, to Joseph Wasse, rector of Aynho, Northamptonshire, concerning a passage in the Sigeion inscription,[12] which may be found in the Biblioteca Literaria of Samuel Jebb and William Bowyer, No. 10 (1724).

References

  1. ^ See Abstract of Release of Marriage Portion published online by National Archives Online Leicester Record Office, Conant MSS, DG11/967.
  2. ISBN 0-907464-06-8
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  3. ^ Bryan Waites, 'Sir Thomas Barker and the Order of Little Bedlam', Rutland Local History and Record Society Newsletter No. 1 Pt 10 (April 2010), pp 5–6. read here
  4. ^ Oxford University Alumni 1500–1714, Vol. I p. 71, column 2, as 'son of Austin of Medford, Northants.'
  5. ^ W. Whiston, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr William Whiston (Author, London 1749), p. 271 (Google).
  6. ^ See Jonathan Swift's 'Ode for Music, On the Longitude' (Swift's Works, ed. 1803, xxiv. 39), set to music by Benjamin Cooke: read here.
  7. ^ John Cornforth, 'Lyndon Hall, Rutland. The home of Lady Conant', Country Life 10 Nov. 1966.
  8. ^ H.A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Northampton and Rutland Pocket edition (Macmillan & Co., London 1924), 161–62.
  9. ^ Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses 1261–1900, Samuel Barker admitted 1777.
  10. ^ Poesis vetus Hebraica restituta; accedunt quædam de Carminibus Anacreonticis, de accentibus Græcis; de scriptura veteri Ionica, de literis consonantibus et vocalibus, et de pronunciatione linguæ Hebraicæ. Auctore Samuele Barker armigero, nuper de Lyndon, in com. Rotelandiæ, (Londini: Prostat venalis apud J. Whiston & B. White, 1761). In modern reprints the name in the title is mistakenly written 'Baker'.
  11. ^ J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, (Nichols and Bentley, London 1812–1815) Vol. 9: Additions to the Eighth Volume, p. 680.
  12. ^ Stone stela (6th century B.C.), The British Museum, Accession number: 1816,0610.107 (British Museum).
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Barker, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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