"my friend and rival, Mr. Barker" [RETI] 

 

 
We occasionally get suggestions for topics, and this is one of those cases. Kaj Johansen wondered "who was Barker?" — as in "Barker, my hated rival on the Surrey shore," in "The Retired Colourman."
 
It led us to a  short article in The Baker Street Journal by William Schweickert (Vol. 43 No. 2) that takes us through Mercer, Shinwell Johnson, and Langdale Pike and then proposes that Barker held a particularly important role. What was it? It's just a Trifle.
 
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