Henry Baber

Henry Hervey Baber (1775 – 28 March 1869) was an English philologist.

[1] He was born in Slingsby, Yorkshire, the second son of Thomas, a London Attorney of the Inner Temple, and Elizabeth (née Berriman) Baber and was educated at St Paul's School, London.

[2] After working for a while as a sub-librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, he became in 1807 Assistant Librarian at the British Museum.

The crown rewarded him with the rectory of St James' Church, Stretham,[3] Cambridgeshire in 1827, for his work on a three-volume edition of the Old Testament part of the Codex Alexandrinus.

He was elected in May 1816 a Fellow of the Royal Society[4] When the museum trustees decided in 1837 that their staff should no longer hold other remunerated posts, Baber resigned from his museum post but remained rector of Stretham until his death aged 94.