Ernest Barker

Sir Ernest Barker (September 23, 1874 – February 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

Sources

• Author and Book Info.com

References

• Julia Stapleton (1994), Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker