Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital; practised at Bath, after he had been House Surgeon and Resident Medical Officer of the Royal United Hospital and Surgeon to the Eastern Dispensary. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to St Catherine’s and Bellott’s Hospitals, Medical Registrar and Curator of the Museum of the Royal United Hospital, Surgeon to the Institute for Idiots, Medical Officer of Health for Bath and Bradford-on-Avon, and Assistant Surgeon of the 2nd Somerset Militia. He died at 13 Gay Street, Bath, on April 22nd, 1876. A Dr Richard Barter (1802-1870) was the first to set up hot-air baths and then Turkish baths in the British Dominions. Publication:- *A Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City and Borough of Bath, during the Years 1867 and 1868, with a Synopsis of that of Several Previous Years, together with a Geological, Meteorological, and General Topographical Sketch of the City and its Vicinity, in Relation to Matters connected with the Public Health*, 8vo, Bath, 1869.