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William Burckhardt Barker
William Burckhardt Barker (1810?–1856) was an English orientalist.
==Life==
Barker was born about 1810, at which time John Barker, his father, was consul at Aleppo. From both his parents he inherited a singular linguistic aptitude. He was the godson of John Louis Burckhardt, who, about the time of his birth, was for several months the guest of his father. He was brought to England in 1819, and educated there. From his early boyhood he prosecuted the study of oriental languages, and became at length as familiar with Arabic, Turkish, and Persian as he was with the chief languages of Europe. After his return to Syria Barker undertook a journey to the scarcely known sources of the Orontes, no account of which, until the communication of his ‘Notes’ to the Geographical Society of London in 1836, had ever been published.
Barker returned on 22 August 1835, to his father's residence at Suediah, near the mouth of the Orontes, and during part of the succeeding winter played chess almost every evening with Ibrahim Pasha, then governor of Syria and resident at Antioch. Barker was for ‘many years resident at Tarsus in an official capacity’—in the list of members of the Syro-Egyptian Society of London for 1847–8 he is designated, probably by mistake, as ‘H.B.M. Consul, Tarsus’.
Barker was for some time professor of the Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Hindustani languages at Eton College, and he dedicated his Turkish grammar to Dr. Hawtrey, the provost. In the course of the Crimean war Barker placed his knowledge of the oriental languages and character at the disposal of the British government, in whose service he died on 28 January 1856, ‘of cholera, at Sinope, on the Black Sea, aged 45’, whilst employed as chief superintendent of the land transport depôt at that place.
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