Career
The Reverend John Barker-Mill was created a Baronet "of Mottisfont in the County of Southampton" on 16 March 1836. In 1842 three local gentlemen, Thomas Chamberlayne, Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst and Barker-Mill himself, financed the development of the Antelope Ground in Southampton. Barker-Mill made a single first-class appearance for pre-county club Hampshire against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1842.
In his only first-class match Mill was absent hurt in both of Hampshire"s innings.
Barker-Mill died at Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire on 20 February 1860.