Samuel Barnard (June 6 1832 - September 23 1912)  My great grandfather on my mother's side of the family.   Sounds like quite a feisty guy !

(This old newspaper clipping was damaged and parts unreadable)

                                         INSERT FROM "THE HERALD of ST. LUCIA"
SATURDAY, SEPTMBER 28,1912
THE LATE MR SAMUEL BARNARD

One by one, the old heads, who have played prominent parts in the life of this
community, disappear from the scene of their terrestrial labours and are gathered unto
their fathers. Early this month, it was our duty to chronicle the death of MR A. R. W.
Lloyd, and this week the sad duty fell to our lot to record that MR SAMUEL
BARNARD, J.P., senior partner in the leading firm of Barnard Sons & Co., General
Merchants and Shipping Agents, and doyen of the local mercantile community, had paid
the debt of Nature, and peacefully breathed his last at 8 p.m. on the 23rd instant, at his
residence "Sans Souci". The deceased gentleman was a St. Lucian in all but birth, he
having first seen light in Antigua on June 6, 1832. The acquisition by St. Lucia of this
desirable citizen, in early childhood, was due to the action of the Trustees of the Lady
Mico Charity * in sending Samuel Barnard, the deceased's father, among the earliest group
_ "of teachers trained at the Mico Institution ** to take charge of one of the schools established
by them in this colony, and Samuel Barnard Junior, as the deceased was known for
many years, started to follow in the footsteps of his father. He eventually became
assistant teacher at Vieux-Fort, but he soon felt that a youth of his parts could do better in
a mercantile career, and having attracted the favourable attention of the late Mr.
Abernethy, of the Firm of Jones Abernethy & Co., he left the service of the Lady Mico
Trustees and became a Clerk in the employ of this firm. He soon impressed his employers
that, in him, they had a trustworthy and energetic clerk, and they treated him accordingly.
His honourable career, thus begun, continued under the various changes of name which
this old firm underwent, until he became a partner when the firm traded as Jones,
Fleming & Co. Eventually the time came when his sons were admitted into partnership
and Barnard, Sons & Co. came into existence.

A man of remarkable energy, as his carriage, erect to the last***, and his short quick step betokened, and of forceful character, he was a power to be reckoned with in the community. Of great tenacity of purpose, it is probable that he never entirely lost the autocratic tendency of mind said to be engendered in schoolmasters, and, being of that intense nature, given to holding strong views, he was
not very tolerant of opposition to his views. This trait in his character endowed him with
the fine old Hampden-like spirit of fighting the Government over the payment of such
taxes or duties that he deemed not payable. A careful student of the various tariffs that
affected commerce, he differed from the interpretation of certain parts by the Treasurer,
and many a fight has he had with the Government - sometimes in the Courts of Law -
over tariff and other questions; nor would he give in, until he could carry the matter no
further; and he was by no means always unsuccessful in such encounters.  Other
characteristics of his, were a lively sense of humour which enabled him to enjoy a good
joke and to give many a good one, and his uncompromising Protestantism, which,
however, did not prevent his reckoning as among his best friends some of the Parish
Priests in the out-districts in his younger days, or his having many friends among those
who did not see eye to eye with him in religious matters.  
                                                                                                                                           
He was nominated to a seat on the Legislative Council, of which he was a member for a number of years. There, a man of the deceased's independence of mind and forceful personality could have done some good, had things been different. The unsparing criticism, not untinged by a vein of
sarcastic humour, to which Government measures, of which he disapproved, were
subjected at the hands of one who neither catered for the favour of the "powers that be",
nor cared for their displeasure, could hardly have been relished by them, and they
probably breathed somewhat freer, when Mr. Barnard, never overwhelmed with any
undue sense of the honour of the position of an unofficial member, and having come to
the conclusion that he could better employ his time in attending meetings of the council,
declined re-nomination some years ago; especially as his old friend, Mr. Lloyd, was also
contemplating retirement.

For some years, he was an elected Member of the Castries Town Board. He took a keen interest in the lat contested municipal election, in 1909 as ......................... choice of a site for a c....... or Cornegie ? college ------------ within Columbus Square and although showing traces of advancing age, he could be seen energetically advising voters which side to support. A serious illness which his vitality
enabled him to weather, three or four years ago, induced the deceased to slacken
somewhat the very active life he had led and which there was no necessity then for him to
lead, and he left the active conduct of the business in which he had been, for such a very
long time the presiding genius, in the able hands of his sons and partners; Mr. W.H.
Barnard and Mr. Frank Barnard; though he by no means, abandoned all interest in the
affairs of the firm.

A man of the deceased's energetic disposition could not remain doing nothing, and
turning, like Cincinnatus, to agricultural pursuits, he devoted the evening of his days to
the development of the lime plantation he had established at Barnardville and which he
personally supervised, until quite recently. Had Mr. Barnard lived to  ___? December he
would have celebrated his golden wedding, for it is nigh on 50 years since he led Miss
Isabella Parker, daughter of the late Hon'ble Thos. Parker, for many years auditor of this
Colony; and to the influence and sympathetic support, so much needed in the troubles
which are inseparable to this life, of such a helpmeet may be attributed, to a considerable
extent the prosperous career of the deceased, And, who can gauge the depth of he.................. at the separation - temporary  though it ......) really be - from a close companion of a .............. lifetime! Of the deceased's seven (offspring), two sons have preceded him into ....Eternity?
(NOTE: assumed to be Hubert Wallace 'Hugh' and Gerald). Of the five
surviving children .......................(column chopped off so most unreadable).

*   Training of teachers began in 1836 after establishment of the Lady Mico Charity in 1835.  In 1836 a British Parliamentary Grant was added to the Charity's funds.

** 1847 The Parliamentary Grant ended and after that schools under the Charity were confined to Jamaica, Antigua and St. Lucia.

***  A few days prior to his last illness Samuel was to be found at his Jaguar car dealership in Castries
(c) Elizabeth Donnell September 22, 2014