John Barker-Mill
Sir John Barker-Mill, 1st Baronet was an English cleric and first-class cricketer.
Early life
He was the son of John Barker of Dorset, born at Wareham. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1822. He subsequently matriculated in 1825 at Downing College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1828, M.A. in 1831.Barker was ordained deacon in 1827, by George Henry Law, and priest in 1828 by Edward Copleston. He became a curate at Longstock, Hampshire in 1827, and was vicar there from 1828 to 1835. In 1831 he became vicar too at King's Somborne, also in Hampshire.
Later life
In accordance to the last will and testament of his maternal uncle Sir Charles Mill, 10th Baronet, John Barker took the additional name of Mill by Royal Licence on 8 May 1835. He was created a Baronet "of Mottisfont in the County of Southampton" on 16 March 1836. He also inherited the manor of East Dean, Hampshire. That year he gave up his clerical career.In 1842 three local gentlemen, Thomas Chamberlayne, Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst and Barker-Mill himself, financed the development of the Antelope Ground in Southampton.
Barker-Mill took up racehorse training. In 1845, he as the owner of the winner of the Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall races was presented with a silver vase made by silversmith John Samuel Hunt as commissioned by Queen Victoria. The vase, known as "Her Majesty's Vase", was rediscovered by the family in 2022. He died at Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire on 20 February 1860.