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Revd Canon Hugh Remington Barker (1919 -)
Provincial Grand Master 1989 - 1994
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Extract from
"Cambridgeshire Encompassed",
by kind permission of
W.Bro. Jim Whitehead
Provincial Grand Masters
© Copyright 2008: Provincial Grand Lodge of Cambridge
Created and maintained by: Roger Outram
The second Canon to serve as our Provincial Grand Master, Hugh Barker continued the tradition of University men, although he was not an Initiate of INUL. He was a member of Pembroke College, coming up in 1938 from St. John's School, Leatherhead. From Pembroke he went on to Chichester Theological College. After being made Deacon, he was ordained Priest in 1944 in St. Paul's Cathedral by G.F. Fisher, who was later to become Archbishop of Canterbury. He served a busy apprenticeship with Curacies in both London and Southwark Dioceses – source of a goodly number of his seemingly infinite selection of entertaining and apposite anecdotes – before being appointed Vicar of a Parish off the Old Kent Road from 1951 until 1962. During this period he was Initiated – though a Pembroke man – in Old Johnian Lodge No 5282, becoming WM in 1964, in which year he joined Gild of Holy Trinity Lodge in our Province, having moved out of London to the Parish of Wisbech St. Mary. He served there from 1962 to 1975 and then progressed to become Rector of his beloved Walpole St. Peter in 1975, where he remained until his retirement in 1984, W.Bro. Barker served as Rural Dean of Wisbech (1972-75) and of Lynn Marshland (1976-84). He was an Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral from 1981 until his retirement;
Canon Emeritus thereafter. Grand Lodge appointed him AsstGChaplain in 1985
and he was promoted to ProvDeputyGChaplain in 1987.
