[2] A careful batsman, reliable in a crisis, Jack Barrett played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1885 to 1893.

[3] Despite having missed many of Victoria's matches owing to his medical studies, he was selected to tour England in 1890 with the Australian team.

[7] He made his highest first-class score of 97 (and 73 not out in the second innings) in the final match of the tour against an England XI at Manchester.

[9] Barrett undertook further medical studies in England after the cricket tour, earning an MRCS diploma in surgery.

[1] At the time of his death in the goldfields town of Peak Hill, Western Australia, he had been practising there for some years.