Henry W. Barnard

Reverend Henry Watson Barnard (10 January 1792 – 9 July 1855) was an English clergyman and amateur cricketer who played between 1815 and 1823. He served in the Church of England in Somerset and was a canon of Wells Cathedral.

Early and professional life Barnard was born at Chislehurst in Kent in 1792, the son of the Edward and Mary Ann Barnard (née Beadon). His father served in the West Kent troop of the Yeomanry Cavalry at Chislehurst from their formation in 1793 before being ordained in the Church of England in 1797. Barnard's grandfather, also Edward, was a clergyman who had been a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and was the Headmaster of Eton College between 1754 and 1765 and the College Provost from 1765 until his death in 1781. Barnard's mother Mary Ann was the daughter of Edward Beadon, the vicar of St Nicolas Church, North Stoneham in Hampshire. She married his father, who had also attended St John's, in 1784. in his five important matches, four of them in the same match for Old Etonians.

John Barnard played in a total of 18 important matches and was President of MCC in 1829–30. Another of Barnard's brothers, George, also played important cricket, playing twice for Cambridge University in 1825 and 1826, having captained Eton whilst at school. (Barnard's oldest brother Charles is not known to have played.) He lived between 1790 and 1878 and after attending Eton and St John's, Cambridge was the British Chargé d'affaires at Coburg from 1842.

Family In 1819 Barnard married Eleanor Clerk, the daughter of Major Thomas Clerk of Westholme House, Pilton. His father-in-law had served in the East India Company Army and purchased the house in 1800. The couple had five children, three daughters and two sons.

Barnard died of cholera at Granada in Spain in 1855. He was 63.