[1] He was a right-handed tail-end batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.
He was born at Leamington Spa in Warwickshire and died at Hereford.
[2] But his first-class cricket career was restricted by his career in the police to a handful of matches in the 1946 season when, according to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, he "showed promise" as a 6 ft 4in fast bowler.
[3] In the match against Yorkshire in June 1946, with both sides weakened by absences for the Test Trial match, he took seven wickets for 68 runs in Yorkshire's only innings.
[4] For the 1947 season, Warwickshire recruited the New Zealand fast bowler Tom Pritchard and although Barker played a few times for the second eleven in that season, he did not appear again in first-class cricket.