Editing Ronnie Barker (section)

==Personal life==

Barker met Joy Tubb in [[Cambridge]] while she was a stage manager for two plays he was in.<ref name=C44/> They married nine months later in July 1957 and had three children: two sons, Larry (born 1959) and Adam (born 1968), and one daughter, [[Charlotte Barker|Charlotte]] (born 1962), who became an actress.<ref>{{harvnb|Corbett|Nobbs|2007|pp=46–48}}</ref> Larry, a leading advertising creative director,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://futermanrose.co.uk/barker.html|title = Barker}}</ref> was named after Barker's idol [[Laurence Olivier]].<ref>{{harvnb|McCabe|2005|pp=47}}</ref> Adam Barker became an actor, but was jailed for twelve months in 2012 on twenty counts of making indecent images of children, having evaded police for eight years; he was not present at his father's funeral.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20000822|title = Ronnie Barker's son Adam Barker jailed for indecent images|work = BBC News|date = 19 October 2012}}</ref>
The family lived in [[Pinner]] for many years,<ref name="Corbett 2006 94"/> and subsequently in a converted mill in [[Dean, Oxfordshire|Dean]], Oxfordshire.<ref>{{harvnb|Corbett|Nobbs|2007|p=239}}</ref> According to Corbett, Barker was "first and foremost a family man".<ref>{{harvnb|Corbett|Nobbs|2007|p=237}}</ref> Joy died in January 2011, aged 78.<ref>[https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/224572/Ronnie-Barker-s-lost-son ''Daily Express'']</ref>

Barker was appointed an [[Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1978.<ref name=timesobit/> He was an avid collector of antiques, books and posters and amassed a collection of over 53,000 postcards.<ref>{{harvnb|Corbett|Nobbs|2007|pp=159–162}}</ref> He produced several compilation books of them, including ''Ronnie Barker's Book of Bathing Beauties'', ''A Pennyworth of Art'', and ''Sauce''.<ref name=timesobit/><ref name=indobit/><ref name=guardobit/> Barker rarely appeared in public, and when he did, it was almost always in character.<ref name=C78/> He once said, "I've always known I haven't a personality of my own, I have to be someone else to be happy. That's why I became an actor, I suppose."<ref name=indobit/>

Barker was a [[Chain smoking|heavy smoker]] until 1972, when he gave up the habit after having a [[Precancerous condition|pre-cancerous growth]] removed from his throat; he took to drinking wine and using [[placebo]] cigarettes to maintain his concentration and help him sleep.<ref>{{harvnb|Corbett|Nobbs|2007|pp=144–146}}</ref> He underwent a [[heart bypass]] in 1996 and survived a [[pulmonary embolism]] the following year.<ref>{{harvnb|Corbett|Nobbs|2007|p=256}}</ref>