Barker, John c1708-3.apr.1781 England, ? - Staffordshire, Lichfield
organist, until may.1724 chorister at the Chapel Royal London, oct.1731-1752 organist of Holy Trinity in Coventry Warwickshire, 1741-1750 printer and copyist in Coventry, he possessed a collection of autograph manuscripts of Henry Cooke, John Blow, William Turner and Henry Purcell, c1750 he published 'A Select Number of the Best Psalm Tunes', 1755 he had moved to Lichfield