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Biography: Barker, Mary Anne

Mary Anne Barker and her husband, Frederick Napier Broome

Mary Anne Barker and her husband, Frederick Napier Broome

Lady Barker, pictured here with her husband, wrote vividly of their two years living on a Canterbury sheep run in Station life in New Zealand (1870).

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Cherry Hankin. 'Barker, Mary Anne', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990, updated January 2012. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/70/mary-anne-barker-and-her-husband-frederick-napier-broome (accessed 4 June 2026).