Lived at 3 Islip Street, Kentish Town, London from at least 1894 until 1905; 18 Raveley St, St. Pancras from 1908-12; at an unknown address at Crouch End from 1912-16, and finally from 1916-32 at 1 Ashley Street, Shrewsbury, where he became the County Recorder for Coleoptera for Shropshire and amassed a considerable collection (c.4,000 specimens at least), and added numerous species to that county’s list. The bulk of this collection is now with the North Hertfordshire Museums Service.

Well known as an entomologist and ornithologist in Australia. Born in Chiselhurst, Kent but moved to Australia where he was stationed at Coomooboolaroo near Duaringal, Queensland. By 1891 his insect collection had increased to such an extent that he built a private museum to house it. He was much assisted by his wife and son Wilfred Bourne Barnard, the Lepidopterist. His publications were mainly about Lepidoptera. He died at Launceston and there is an obituary notice in Ent., 27, 1894, 228. He is also mentioned in Musgrave, (1932). (MD 9/01)

Published a number of notes on entomology in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and in India Museum Notes from 1894 including a list of the Melolonthini contained in the collection of the Indian Museum (1899, 234-273). (MD 9/01)

Published ‘The water beetle, Acilius sulcatus in Co. Dublin’ in INJ, 6, 1937, 253. (MD 9/01)

Smith (1986),102, records that insects, chiefly Coleoptera collected by Barker in Natal, Chimoio, Mozambique and Grahamstown between 1889 and 1904 were acquired by the HDO in 1903, 1904 and 1907. (MD 9/01)

Published 'The genus Quedius' in Procedings Bristol Naturalists Society, (2), 1866, i, 95. (MD 9/01)

Collected Rutelinae at Ootacamund (Arrow, G.J., Rutelinae, Desmonycinae, Euchirinae, FBI, 1917). This is probably the same Barber who gave ten Coleoptera from Antiqua and three from Dominica to the NHM in 1898. (MD 9/01)

General Practioner who lived for many years in Cornwall after his marriage. Collected extensively in the County, his collection and the ledger containing all the information about it, passing to Truro museum after his death. In 1936 he added Trogophloeus (Carpelimus) despectus Baudi to the British list (Ent.mon.Mag., 72, 1936, 78-9) but subsequently deleted the record because the specimen was lost and he felt unsure of the identification, (ibid., 107, 1971, p.33).

There are numerous accounts of Banks, the well known botanist and traveller with Captain Cook and Dr Carl Solander on H.M.S. Endeavour to Australia, including one by a Coleopterist (C. MacKechnie Jarvis, 'Sir Joseph Banks, Bt., K.B. (Naturalist), 1743-1820’ in Proc.S.Lond.ent.nat.Hist.Soc., 1943-4, 60-68). Others are listed in the comprehensive account in DNB. All mention that Banks collected insects but give little further information.

Smith (1986), 102, records that collections of Hymenopera and Coleoptera from the Federated Malay States were acquired by the HDO in 1910 and 1911. (MD 9/01)