Edward Thaddeus Barleycorn Barber

Thaddeus Barleycorn-Barber (1 July 1865 – January 1948) was a medical doctor who was born in Santa Isabel, capital of the Spanish colony on the island of Fernando Po in West Africa. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1892.

He was one of the first black African students in York, England, and is presumably linked with William N Barleycorn, the first native Primitive Methodist minister in Fernando Po. Other leading Creole families in Fernando Po (now Bioko) around this time included the Barleycorn family, as well as Vivour, Jones, Kinson, Dougan, Grange, Davies, Balboa, Knox, Coker and Collins. An ancestral link has been suggested with Francis Barber, Samuel Johnson's man-servant. His Barber surname was from Sierra Leone Creoles who settled in Fernando Po.