18 Aug 2023                   
                      William Barber    
              Father:
              Mother:
           M Child 1: Charles Alfred Barber      
                Born: ABT 1860             in South Africa  1
           Education:                      Christ's College, Cambridge  1 (see note 1)
          Occupation:                      Agricultural Botanist  1
                Died: 1933                 in Cambridge  2,3 (see note 2)
                Wife: Edith Leather Osborn  b.  4 Mar 1868  d. 1946  
             Married: 1893                 in London  3 (see note 3)
           M Child 2: Edward Gethyn Barber      
                Born: ABT 1855             in South Africa  
              Census: 1911                 in London   (see note 4)
          Occupation: 1911                 Wholesale Silver Merchant  
             Resided: 1935                 at The Nook, 17 Luard Road, Trumpington  3
                Died: 1944                 in Cambridge  3 (see note 5)
                Wife: Charlotte Elizabeth Hingston  b. ABT 1855  d. 1931  
             Married: 1887                 in Cornwall  3 (see note 6)

Sources:
(1) Alumni Cantabrigienses. 
(2) Probate record. 
(3) FreeBMD website. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Name 	Charles Alfred. Barber
College 	CHRIST'S
Entered 	Michs. 1884
Born 	Nov. 10, 1860
Died 	Feb. 23, 1933
More Information 	Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, Oct. 6, 1884. S. of William,
Wesleyan minister. B. Nov. 10, 1860, at Wynberg, Cape Town. School, New
Kingswood, Bath; afterwards at Bonn University, 1883-4. Matric. Michs. 1884;
Scholar, 1885; (Nat. Sci. Trip., Pt I, 1st Class, 1887; Pt II, 1st Class, 1888);
B.A. 1888; M.A. 1892; Sc.D. 1908. University Demonstrator in Botany, 1889-91.
Superintendent of the Botanical Stations in the Leeward Islands, 1892-6.
Lecturer in Botany at the Royal Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, 1896-8.
Government Botanist, Madras Presidency, 1898-1912. Director of Botanical Survey
of Southern India, 1898-1908. Head of the Agricultural College, Coimbatore,
1908. Sugar-cane expert to the Government of India, 1912-19. University Lecturer
on Tropical Agriculture, 1919. C.I.E., 1918. A distinguished investigator of
morphological problems. Did much exploratory botanical work while in the
tropics, which has been utilised in Gamble's Flora. Published an important
series of studies in parasitism of green trees in the Memoirs of the Department
of Agriculture, India. Awarded the Maynard Ganga Ram Prize for Indian research,
1931. Died Feb. 23, 1933, aged 72, at Cambridge. Brother of William T. A.
(1876). (Peile, II. 710; The Times, Feb. 24, 1933.)
Note (2) Mar 1933 Cambridge 3b 696   age 72
Note (3) Sep 1893 Wandsworth 1d 1306
Note (4) Age 55, born Wynberg.  Wholesale Silver Merchant, with wife Charlotte
Note (5) Sep 1944 Cambridge 3b 505   age 85
Note (6) Jun 1887 Liskeard 5c 119

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