George Barnes (priest)
George Barnes, D.D. was an English churchman, the Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1830 to 1847.
Barnes first enrolled in Exeter College, Oxford on 30 October 1799. He graduated from the college in 1814. He also served as the inaugural Archdeacon of Bombay but declined the Bishopric of Calcutta. His father was Archdeacon of Totnes from 1775 to 1820.
In 1815, Barnes founded the Bombay Education Society, which established the Christ Church School and Barnes School in India.
