Background
He was the son of Napoleon Barleycorn, also a Primitive Methodist missionary in Fernando Po, who sent his sons to be educated at Bourne College in Quinton, England.
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William Barleycorn
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He, additionally, studied in Barcelona, Spain and Victoria, Cameroon.
Career
From there, he traveled to Edinburgh University. In 1871 he abandoned running a small trading store and moved to San Carlos (North-West Bay) to work as an assistant for a European missionary. In 1873 he became the head of the Primitive Methodist Day School in San Carlos.
Barleycorn made several trips to England, and received by the conference in Hull to serve as probationer in 1881.
In 1884 he became listed as one of the regular ministers, and studied in Barcelona for two years to obtain his Spanish teaching certificate. Barleycorn compiled the first Bube primer in 1875 along with co-missionary William B. Luddington.
Two copies of Bubi na English primer compiled by William B. Luddington and William North. Barleycorn, 1875, are available for consultation in SOAS Library.
Membership
During the early 1870s, William Barleycorn was a Sunday school teacher, a member of the Native Missionary Class, and a preacher at the local Bubi village of Basupu.
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Religion
Protestant