Percy Arthur Barnett (1858 – 26 October 1941) was a British educationalist and author, Superintendent of Education for the Colony of Natal, and Chief Inspector of Training of Teachers in England.
[4] He was named principal of the Borough Road Teacher Training College, a predecessor of the West London Institute of Higher Education, in 1888.
His wife's letters from this period are archived at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
[6] He became Chief Inspector of Training on his return to England in 1905, and continued in that post until 1912.
[9] His wife, Annie Barnett (née Beeching; 1862–1941), was active in the suffrage movement; her father sold books and her brother was Henry Charles Beeching, a writer and the Dean of Norwich.