George Barnes (priest)

(11 December 1782 – 29 June 1847) was an English churchman, the Archdeacon of Barnstaple[1] from 1830 to 1847.

[2] Barnes first enrolled in Exeter College, Oxford on 30 October 1799.

[3] He also served as the inaugural Archdeacon of Bombay[4] but declined the Bishopric of Calcutta.

[7][8][9] His eldest son George Carnac Barnes (1818–1861) was an administrator in India, and his son Herbert Barnes was also Archdeacon of Barnstaple.

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