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BARBER, HUBERT HOUGH (1850-1916)

BARBER, HUBERT HOUGH, Anglican missionary, Newcastle and Hardwicke, 1876-79, and rector, Newcastle, 1879-81; b. Tickhill, Yorkshire, England, 9 Nov 1850, s/o Edward Barber and Jane Hough; m. Edith Johnson, of Canterbury, England; d. Baltimore, Md, 24 Apr 1916.

The son of a schoolmaster, H. Hough Barber was trained for the priesthood of the Church of England at St Augustine's College in Canterbury. He immigrated to Canada in 1876, and after being ordained a deacon by the bishop of Fredericton, was appointed to Newcastle, as successor to the Rev. Augustus Prime. He was ordained a priest in 1877. Until 1879 he had pastoral responsibility for the Church of St John the Evangelist at Bay du Vin and mission stations at Hardwicke Village and Escuminac, at well as St Andrew's Church in Newcastle. He reported to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel that, for the year ending September 1878, he had driven nearly 6,000 miles, preached nearly 250 sermons, and made nearly 1,500 parochial visits. This information may have contributed to the decision taken to make Hardwicke a separate mission as of 1 May 1879.

Barber was an accomplished musician and an effective public speaker. While addressing a Temperance Society gathering in Newcastle in 1879 he condemned "the vile habits of tobacco chewing and swearing," but explained that he could not be a total abstainer because "a disease of the throat rendered the taking of wine, in his case, a necessity." When he left the Miramichi in July 1881 he went to Shediac. The Moncton Daily Times extended him a somewhat facetious welcome, describing him as "a real specimen of an Englishman." He was rector at Shediac for four years and then of All Saints Church in Winnipeg for two years. In 1887 he transferred to Wisconsin, and in 1895 to Pennsylvania. From 1902 until his retirement in 1910 he was rector of the Episcopal church in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Two sons were born to him and his wife, Edith Johnson, while the family was living in Newcastle.

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[b/d] Francis research / Advance 8 May 1879, 16 Jun 1881; Advocate 19 Feb 1879, 6 Jul 1881; Hist. Bay du Vin


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