Ernest Barker

Ernest Barker

Sir Ernest Barker (September 23, 1874February 17, 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.

From a working-class background in Woodley, 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.

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"

References

* [http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/cgi-bin/auth.pl?B001281 "Author and Book Info.com"]
* Julia Stapleton (1994), "Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker"

External links

* [http://www.psa.ac.uk/about/brochure/PSA%20Brochure_14-17.pdf Political Studies Association Hall of Fame]


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