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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1838–1915)}}
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| name             = Sir Frederick Eustace Barker
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| image            = Frederic E. Barker.png
| constituency_MP  = [[City of St. John]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = [[Samuel Leonard Tilley]]
| successor        = [[John Valentine Ellis]]
| term_start       = 1885
| term_end         = 1887
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1838|12|27}}
| birth_place      = Sheffield, New Brunswick
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1915|12|15|1838|12|27}}
| death_place      = [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]], New Brunswick
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'''Sir Frederick Eustace Barker,''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|KC}} (27 December 1838 &ndash; 15 December 1915) was a [[Canadian]] lawyer, judge and politician. He was in office for 2 years.
==Biography==
Born in [[Sheffield, New Brunswick|Sheffield]], [[New Brunswick]], the son of Enoch Barker, Barker was educated at the Sunbury Grammar School and received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1856, a [[Master of Arts]] degree in 1858, and a [[Bachelor of Civil Law]] degree in 1866 from [[King's College Law School]] (now the [[University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law]]). In 1861, he was called to the Bar and was created a [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1873. He practiced law in Saint John, New Brunswick, and was appointed a commissioner for consolidating the Statutes of New Brunswick in 1875. He was president of the St. John Bridge and Railway Extension Company and a director of the St. John Gas Company.
He also served in the [[Non-Permanent Active Militia|Canadian Militia]] with the Saint-John Light Infantry and was gazetted an ensign and soon after a lieutenant in 1864. He was promoted to captain in 1865 and major in 1868.
He was elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] for the electoral district of [[City of St. John]] in the 1885 by-election called after Sir [[Leonard Tilley]] was appointed [[Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick]]. A [[Conservative Party of Canada (historical)|Conservative]], he was defeated by [[John Valentine Ellis]] in the [[1887 Canadian federal election|1887 election]].
A member of the [[Church of England]], he married Elizabeth Julia Lloyd in 1865. They had one son and two daughter before she died in 1874. He later married Mary Ann Black, the niece and adopted daughter of former Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick [[Robert Duncan Wilmot]]. They had two daughters.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
Barker served as [[Chief Justice of New Brunswick]] from 1908 to 1913.<ref>[http://www.gnb.ca/Cour/02ChiefJustice/chiefjustices-e.asp New Brunswick Courts<!-- bot-generated title -->] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119223611/https://www.gnb.ca/Cour/02ChiefJustice/chiefjustices-e.asp |date=19 November 2018 }} at www.gnb.ca</ref>
He died in Saint John on 15 December 1915.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45990009/ex-chief-justice-dead/ |title=Ex-Chief Justice Dead |newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette|The Gazette]] |location=Saint John, N.B. |page=9 |date=1915-12-16 |access-date=2020-03-02 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==References==
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* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=10520}}
* {{cite book|title=A cyclopaedia of Canadian biography, Volume 2|via=[[Internet Archive]]|url=https://archive.org/details/cyclopaediaofcan02roseuoft|publisher=Toronto Rose Pub. Co|year=1888|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cyclopaediaofcan02roseuoft/page/206 206]–207}}
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{{s-ttl|title=[[Chief Justice of New Brunswick]] |years=1908–1913}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Ezekiel McLeod]]}}
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