Edward Barber (priest)

Memorial to Edward Barber in Chester Cathedral

Edward Barber^[1] (born Brighouse, 19 September 1841 – died Chester, 23 July 1914) was Archdeacon of Chester ^[2] from 1886^[3] until his death.^[4]

Born into an ecclesiastical family,^[5] Barber was educated at St Peter's School, York, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Ordained in 1865, he was an Assistant Master at St Peter’s College, Radley, then an Inspector of Schools in the Diocese of Oxford from 1872 and 1983; Rector of Chalfont St Giles from 1883 to 1986; and a Canon Residentiary of Chester Cathedral from then on.

References

↑ Photo of Barber
↑ National Archives
↑ THE NEW DEAN OF CHESTER.The Star (Saint Peter Port, England), Thursday, January 28, 1886; Issue 103
↑ Archdeacon Barber The Times (London, England), Friday, Jul 24, 1914; pg. 10; Issue 40584
↑ His father was the Rev. Thomas Evetts, sometime Rector of Monks Risborough > ‘BARBER, Ven. Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 25 March 2013

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Lionel Darby	Archdeacon of Chester 1886–1914	Succeeded by William Lang Paige Cox

Archdeacons of Chester

Early Medieval	Halmar William Robert (I) Richard Peche Adam de Stafford William de Villars Robert (II) Hugh Thomas de Sancto Nicholao Ralph de Maidstone Silvester de Everdon Richard John Basing Simon de Albo Monasterio Adam de Stanford Jordan of Wimborne/de Wimburn Robert de Radewell

Late Medieval	Richard de Havering John de Ufford Michael Northburgh Pedro Cardinal Gòmez de Barroso William de Navesby Nicholas Slake John de Herlaston John Ganville William de Neuhagh Henry de Halsall David Price Richard Stanley John Burdet George Radclyf Sir Edward Stanley Thomas St Just Henry Ince John Morton James Stanley Christopher Talbot Edmund Chaderton, Archdeacon of Salisbury

Early modern	John Vesey Cuthbert Tunstall William Knight John Birde, Bishop of Chester Robert Perceval/Percival (twice) Robert Rogers Cuthbert Bellott George Snell John Carter William Finmore John Allen Edmund Entwisle John Thane Lewis Stephens William Powell Abel Ward George Taylor George Travis Thomas Breithweite

Late modern	Unwin Clarke Isaac Wood Richard Greenall William Pollock Edward Johnson John Darby Edward Barber Paige Cox Norman Tubbs Richard Burne Leslie Fisher Leslie Williams Michael Gear Geoffrey Turner Christopher Hewetson Donald Allister Michael Gilbertson

Diocese of Chester

Chester Cathedral Bishop's House, Chester Church House, Chester St John's, Chester

Office holders	The Bishop of Chester, Peter Forster The Bishop suffragan of Birkenhead, Keith Sinclair The Bishop suffragan of Stockport, Libby Lane AEO: Glyn Webster, Bishop suffragan of Beverley The Dean of Chester, Gordon McPhate The Archdeacon of Chester, Michael Gilbertson The Archdeacon of Macclesfield, Ian Bishop

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