Education and Early Life
Barker was educated at Serangoon English School and Raffles Institution, before going on to Raffles College in 1940. A talented sports player, Barker was selected to represent Singapore as a member of the national hockey team while he was still a schoolboy.
During World War II, Barker traveled to Thailand as part of a medical health unit which was sent to look after Allied prisoners-of-war working on the Burma-Siam Railway.
After the war, Barker was awarded a Queen's Scholarship in 1946 to study in the United Kingdom at Cambridge University, where he read law at St Catharine's College. He was then called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London, and returned to Singapore to practice law.
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