About Alfred Barker
Lived 1819 – 1873 (aged 54). Alfred Barker was a physician and photographer.
Alfred Charles Barker (1819–1873) was a New Zealand medical doctor and photographer.
Barker was born on 5 January 1819 at Hackney, London in England. Barker was the fifth child of Joseph Gibbs Barker and Sarah Pritchett Bousfield. He studied medicine at King's College, London. He and his wife Emma (née Bacon) arrived at Lyttelton on the Charlotte Jane on 16 December 1850 and settled in Christchurch, where they had five children. His medical practice was sufficiently lucrative to allow him to retire from medicine at the age of 39.
Barker's photos are held in the Canterbury Museum.
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Who was Alfred Barker?
New Zealand doctor and photographer (1819-1873)
When was Alfred Barker born?
Alfred Barker was born on 5 January 1819 in London.
When did Alfred Barker die?
Alfred Barker died on 20 March 1873 in Christchurch.
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Alfred Barker was a physician and photographer.
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Alfred Barker's recorded nationality: Colony of New Zealand.
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· DBpedia: Alfred Barker (doctor)
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