Roy Barker (priest)

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}} '''Roy Thomas Barker''' (1933 – 28 October 2011) was dean of Grahamstown from 1980<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980/82 p58: London, Church House, 1983 {{ISBN|0-19-200010-1}}</ref> until 1992.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Charles|last1=Gould|first2=Jeanette|last2=Eve|title=Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vadHwAACAAJ|year=2011|publisher=Eastern Cape Reprints|page=A:25}}</ref>

Barker was educated at King's College London and Warminster Theological College; and ordained in 1959. After curacies in Leeds he was chaplain at the University of Cape Town from 1966 until 1972. He was then sub dean of Cape Town from 1973 until his appointment in Grahamstown.

Barker died on 28 October 2011.<ref name="grah_RoyB">{{Cite web | title = A tapestry of memories and tributes | last = Eve | first = Jeanette | work = Grahamstown Cathedral | date = 9 November 2011 | access-date = 2015-09-16 | url = http://www.grahamstowncathedral.org/aboutus/deanbarker.php | language = | quote = }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Canon Roy Barker |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/25452871:8960?tid=&pid=&queryId=7def5f2d-c504-4265-a016-6a509645a335&_phsrc=Dqh7660&_phstart=successSource |publisher=UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004–Current |access-date=30 March 2024}}</ref>

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