Alfred Barker (doctor)

Alfred Charles Barker (1819–1873) was a New Zealand medical doctor and photographer.

Barker was born on 5 January 1819 at Hackney, London in England. Barker was the fifth child of Joseph Gibbs Barker and Sarah Pritchett Bousfield. He studied medicine at King's College, London. He and his wife Emma (née Bacon) arrived at Lyttelton on the Charlotte Jane on 16 December 1850 and settled in Christchurch, where they had five children.

Barker died on 20 March 1873 and was buried in the Barbadoes Street Cemetery.