Family
A Eurasian Singaporean, Barker was the son of Clarence Barker and Dorothy Evaline Paterson, and was of mixed German, Scottish, Japanese, Indonesian and Irish descent.
Barker was married to Gloria Hyacinth Quintal and had four children.
E. W. Barker was of mixed- Portuguese, Irish, Japanese, Scottish, Malay and German descent. His great (x2) grandfather was Thomas Owen Crane (1799-1869), an Irishman and one of the first ten Europeans to settle in Singapore. His great (x3) grandfather was Sir (Dr) Jose D Almeida, (1784-1850), a Portuguese doctor and well known businessman in early Singapore.
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