Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet

Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet (1685 – 23 July 1731) of Grimston Hall, Suffolk was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1731.

[3] Barker did not stand at the 1715 general election and was out of parliament for a few years in the course of which his wife Mary died on 1 January 1716.

A few months later, he died on 23 July 1731 at his house in East Street, near Red Lion Square.

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Sir John Barker, 6th Baronet, his only child by his first wife.

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