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5 unusual facts about Robert Barker


Henry Aston Barker

Henry Aston Barker (1774 - 19 July 1856) was a Scottish landscape and panorama painter and exhibitor, the son of Robert Barker whose business he continued.

Barker was born in Glasgow, the younger son of Robert Barker, the panoramic painter, whom he assisted as a boy.

Ramsay Richard Reinagle

After his return home he painted for a time at Robert Barker's panorama in Leicester Square, and then entered into partnership with Thomas Edward Barker, Robert's eldest son, who was not himself an artist, in order to erect a rival building in the Strand.

Robert Barker

Robert Hewitt Barker, British Member of Parliament for Sowerby, 1918–1922

Bootie Barker (born 1971), crew chief in the NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car racing series



see also

Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library

The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library is a library of psychoactive drug-related literature created in 1970 by Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer, William Dailey, and Robert Barker, who merged their private libraries.

Royal Strand Theatre

On the death of Robert Barker, in 1806, his younger brother, Henry Aston Barker took over management of the Leicester Square rotunda.