Brigadier-General Sir George Robert Barker KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (1817 – 27 July 1861) was a British soldier.

Born in London

London

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, he was the youngest son of John Barker, a former deputy-storekeeper general in HM Treasury

HM Treasury

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. Barker was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and joined the Royal Artillery

Royal Artillery

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 in 1834. After the Crimean War

Crimean War

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 in 1855, he was promoted to brevet-colonel. Barker was present at the Siege of Lucknow

Siege of Lucknow

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, commanding the British artillery and then captured the fort of Birwa. He was awarded a Knight of the Order of the Bath

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 in 1859 for his distinguished services during the Indian Mutiny.

In 1852, he married Mary Ann

Mary Anne Barker

Mary Anne Barker, Lady Barker , later Mary Anne Broome, Lady Broome, was an author.-Biography:Born Mary Anne Stewart in Spanish Town, Jamaica, she was the eldest daughter of Walter Steward, Island Secretary of Jamaica...

, daughter of Walter George Stewart of Spanish Town

Spanish Town

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, in Jamaica

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. They had two sons, John Stewart Barker (1853) and Walter George Barker (1857). Robert Barker died in Simla

Shimla

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in July 1861.