BARNETT, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS (1844-1913), Eng lish clergyman and social reformer, born at Bristol on Feb. 8, 1844, the son of Francis Augustus Barnett, an iron manufacturer, visited, after leaving Wadham college in 1866, the United States. Next year he became curate of St. Mary's, Bryanston Square, and in 1872 vicar of St. Jude's, Whitechapel. In the next year he mar ried Henrietta Octavia Rowland, a co-worker with Miss Octavia Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett toiled for the poor of their parish, opening evening schools for adults, providing music and other entertainment, serving on the board of guardians and the school committees, and discouraging outdoor relief, as tending to pauper ization; the conditions of indoor relief were improved, and various charities co-ordinated, with the help of the Charity Organization Society and the board of guardians. In 1875 Arnold Toynbee paid a visit, the first of many, to Whitechapel, and Mr. Barnett, who kept in touch with Oxford, formed in 1877 a committee to organize university extension in London, his assistants being Leonard Montefiore, a young Oxford man, and Frederick Rogers, a member of the vellum binders' trade union. The committee received much support, and in October four courses of lectures, one by Dr. S. R. Gardiner on English history, were given. The Barnetts also furthered the building of model dwellings, the establishment of the children's country holiday fund and annual loan exhibitions of fine art at the Whitechapel gallery. In 1884 an article by Mr. Bar nett in the Nineteenth Century on University Settlements, led in July to the formation of the University Settlements Association ; Toynbee Hall was founded at a meeting in Balliol college (1884) Mr. Barnett was its first warden. He was select preacher at Oxford and at Cambridge (1900) ; he became canon of Bristol in 1893, but retained his wardenship of Toynbee Hall. In June T906 he was made a canon of Westminster and when in December he resigned the wardenship of Toynbee Hall the position of presi dent was created for him. He died on June 17, 1913. Among Canon Barnett's works is Practicable Socialism (1888, 2nd ed. 1894), written with the aid of his wife, who after his death was created for her great public services, a D.B.E. Dame Henrietta has written her husband's life (2 vols. 1918).