BARKER, Richard (c.1554-1636), of Norton, Salop and Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, Salop.

Family and Education

b. c. 1554, yr. s. of James Barker of Haughmond Abbey by his 1st w. Dorothy, da. of Richard Clive of Styche. educ. Shrewsbury 1562; Barnard’s Inn; G. Inn 1569, called 1576. m. 1583, Dorothy, da. and coh. of William Poyner of Abbey Foregate, 2s. 3da.

Offices Held

Reader, Barnard’s Inn 1583 – 84; Lent reader, G. Inn 1594, bencher 1595, jt. treasurer 1595 – 96; member, council in the marches of Wales 1601; recorder, Shrewsbury 1603; justice of Anglesea circuit 1602 – 10, chief justice 1610 – 15; j.p.q. Salop from 1601.Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 3), vi. misc. 18; (ser. 4), xii. 193; Vis. Salop. (Harl. Soc. xxviii), 26–7; Williams, Welsh Judges , 91; Cardiff Lib. mss 4, f. 609; C142/154/8.

Parlimentarian

BARKER, Richard (c.1554-1636), of Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury and Norton, Salop

Main residences: Norton, Salop; Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, Salop.

Author

P.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

BARKER, Richard (c.1554-1636)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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