Mary Anne Stewart
was married in the cathedral at Spanish Town, Jamaica, to George Robert Barker
(fourteen years her senior), a captain in the Royal Artillery
who had been her father's aide-de-camp for about...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Anne Barker
George Barker
, kind, good husband of MAB
, provided the first great sorrow of her life
Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder, 1904.
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when he died suddenly at Simla in India, still in his early forties.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Anne Barker
George Barker
was ordered back to Calcutta almost as soon as the couple had reached Simla. (The switch of British power in India, from the East India Company
to the Crown, was causing re-organization...
Residence
Mary Anne Barker
MAB
set sail from Jamaica with her still new husband
, who had been recalled to London.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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Travel
Mary Anne Barker
MAB
arrived at Calcutta in India (where her husband
had accepted command of the Bengal Royal Artillery
following the Indian Mutiny) on a ship badly damaged by a hurricane.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder, 1904.