Born 19 September 1834^[1] , son of John Barton Senior (1789-1852) and Fanny Rickman (1807-1842).
Married Elizabeth Hazard.
Lived at Fundenhall, Norfolk.
Died October 1889, aged 55.

"June 20 1887 was our beloved Queen Victoria's Jubilee Anniversary, and we had great illuminations and decorations in Cambridge, though we did not go to London. In July Father and I went to Lowestoft as I had been ill, and took rooms near Uncle Gerard, whom I then saw for the last time. Madge sat by him shampooing his poor paralized hands and legs to ease him. He was only 52 but had suffered from 'creeping palsey' for 7 years. His was a philosophical and reverent mind; he was a deep student of theology, and something of a mystic. He took a very unusual step in being ordained at 40 by the Bishop of Norwich, after having farmed his own land at Fundenhall, Norfolk for years; and acted as Chaplain to his tenants there as a layman, no clergyman being resident there. He had a very steady eye, and quiet restrained manner; and impressed you always with the idea that he left unsaid a good deal more than he said of what was in his mind on any given subject." *Memoirs of Emily Elliott pp95-96.

"In the following winter (I think it was) my brother Gerard who had been learning farming at Starston in Norfolk with a connexion of ours on my grandfather Mr Hughes’ side, a Mr. Etheredge, was married to a Miss Hasard, daughter of a solicitor in the neighbouring town of Harleston. They came to live after their marriage in the little village of Singleton, 6 miles to the north of Chichester and it was there that their eldest child Gertrude was born. Two years later they removed to Fundenhall Grangenear Wymondham where my brother and I had a farm between us, my half-share of which he subsequently bought of me when we came into the Woodruffe Smith property and where he lived, much respected by all around whether rich or poor, until 1877 when he was ordained and went to live in Norwich; and thither he was brought to be laid to rest in that peaceful old churchyard on October 14th 1889 to await the resurrection." *Memoirs of John Barton

Children

With Elizabeth Hazard:

^ *Red family tree book