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Barker (FORDYCE an American physician)

FORDYCE, an American physician, born in Wilton, Franklin co., Me., May 2, 1819. Completing courses at Bowdoin, Harvard, and in Europe, he enin Norwich in 1845. He made a specialty of obstetrics and diseases of women.

After serving as Professor of Midwifery at Bowdoin, he removed to New York City in 1850. He was an incorporator of the New York Medical College and obstetrical surgeon to Bellevue Hospital. He wrote "Puerperal Diseases" and "On Seasickness." He died in New York City, May 30, 1891.

BARKER (HARLEY) GRANVILLE, an English actor and playwright, born in 1877. He began his career as an actor, but soon became manager of the Court Theater in London. His first successes were made in several of Bernard Shaw's plays. He was better known as a playwright than as an actor. The revolutionary and realistic movement in the drama early attracted him and he became one of its chief exponents. He produced a number of plays in which prominence was given to social problems.

He developed a high technical skill in writing these plays which were produced with with great success in England and in the United States. Some of his best known works were "The Marrying of Ann Leet" (1901); "Waste" (1907); "Prunella" 1913).