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Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber (1865–1948) was born on 1 July 1865 in the Spanish colonized capital city of Santa Isabel on the island of Fernando Po in West Africa. He was one of the first black people in York and is presumably linked with William N Barleycorn, the first native Primitive Methodist minister in Fernando Po. Other leading Creole families in Fernando Po (now Bioko) around this time included the Barber family, as well as Davis, Barleycorn, Vivour, Kinson, Dougan, Balboa, Knox, Coker and Collins,〔(African and European cocoa producers on Fernando Poo, 1880s to 1910s; Journal of African History; 1 May 1994; Clarence-Smith, W.G. )〕 although an ancestral link has been suggested with Francis Barber, Samuel Johnson's man-servant. ==Early years and first experience in Britain== There is little information about the early years of Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber. Elmfield College records show him as entering in September 1886 and leaving in April 1888. He is described as the son of "Mrs Julia A. Barber" of "Calle de Rene, Santa Isabel", born on 25 July 1868. Records from the University of Edinburgh 〔University of Edinburgh Record Library〕 show that he was educated for 5 years at the C. M. (Church Missionary) Grammar school in Sierra Leone, West Africa. It is estimated that he would have been aged 12–17 during this period. He would have been sent to Sierra Leone to study since Fernando Po only offered minimal education in Spanish and being from the English speaking Creole tribe. Sierra Leone offered English based education, at the time, with such schools as the Church Missionary Grammar School, and the then prestigious Fourah Bay College still in existence today. The records also showed that he then travelled to Britain to study the equivalent of A Levels at Elmfield College in York aged 18 which would have been in 1886-1887. Elmfield College was opened in 1864 and soon took a foremost place amongst the middle-class schools in England. It was established as a Primitive Methodist boarding school. In October 1887 while at Elmfield, his "interesting recitation" at the Victoria Bar Primitive Methodist Chapel in York, "for which he was enthusiastically applauded", was reported in the local newspaper. After this he became a doctor and barber. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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