Sir Ernest Barker (1874-1960) was a British political scientist. He became in 1928 Professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge, being the first holder of the chair endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. He received a knighthood in 1944. Year 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) is a prominent philanthropic organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. ...
From a working-class background in Cheshire, he won a scholarship to the University of Oxford. He was a don at Oxford, and spent a brief time at the London School of Economics. He was Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927. The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a specialist constituent college of the University of London. ... Kings College London is the largest college of the University of London and one of a number of university institutions founded in England in the early 19th century: only the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have royal charters predating that of Kings. ...
He married Olivia Stuart Horner in 1927.
Works
Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to To-day: 1848-1914 (1915)
Greek Political Theory: Plato and his Predecessors (1918)
Ireland in the last Fifty Years, 1866-1918 (1919)
Britain and the British People (1942)
Reflections on Government (1942)
Principles of Social and Political Theory (1951)
Essays on Government (1951)
Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau
The European Inheritance
The Politics of Aristotle
Age and Youth: Memories of Three Universities and the Father of Man
Character of England
Reference
Julia Stapleton (1994), Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker
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