Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
BARBER, James. A very extensive proprietor of coaches between London and Edinburgh; senior partner in firm of Barber and Co. of York, wholesale jewellers; sheriff of York 1826; lord mayor 1833, elected again 1844 but paid the fine to be excused serving. d. Tang hall near York 10 March 1857 aged 73.
BARBER, James (son of a cutlery manufacturer at Sheffield). Made a large sum of money by cards and billiards at Manchester; went to Paris, where he purchased famous race horse Chanticleer which won the Northumberland plate, Goodwood stakes, and Doncaster cup 1848; in partnership with Joseph Saxon as racing men; won Great Northern handicap at York with Ben Webster 1860, and the Oaks with Brown Duchess 1861; at one period one of richest men on the turf. d. Sheffield 18 April 1885 in 69 year.
BARBER, John. b. West Runham, Norfolk; drayman in firm of Truman and Co., London 8 years; purveyor of pigeons and sparrows at 27 Sclater st. Bethnal Green 1821 to death; attended all the chief shooting matches in England for 40 years; his blue rock pigeons well known all over the world. d. 27 Sclater st. 18 June 1860 aged 71.
BARBER, Jonathan. Frame work knitter at Nottingham; leader of the infidels there, held public discussions with Rev. J. W. Brooks of Nottingham. d. Nottingham 17 Jany. 1859. The apology for renouncing infidel opinions of Jonathan Barber 1859.
BARBER, Jonathan. b. England 1784; M.R.C.S.; practised in Scarborough and London; went to United States about 1820; taught elocution in Yale and Harvard Univs., became the best teacher in America; lectured on phrenology; went to Montreal 1836; resumed medical practice as a homœopath about 1845; professor of oratory in McGill univ. Montreal down to 1862; author of The Elocutionist 1829; A grammar of elocution 1830. d. near Montreal 11 May 1864.
BARBER, Mary Ann Serrett (daughter of Thomas Barber). Wrote many articles in the Church of England Magazine and Charlotte Elizabeth’s Christian lady’s magazine; edited Children’s Missionary magazine afterwards called The Coral Missionary mag. 1847 to death; author of Redemption in Israel or narratives of conversions among the Jews 1844, The sorrows of the streets 1855, Castle Rag and its dependencies or the sins and sorrows of the poor 1858, Du Bourg or the Mercuriale 1851 and many other books. d. 9 Sussex sq. Brighton 9 March 1864 aged 63. Bread-winning or the Ledger and the Lute an Autobiography by M. A. S. Barber 1865.
BARBER, William Henry. b. about 1807; clerk to Messrs. Scoones of Tonbridge, Kent, solicitors 1819–36; established Literary and Scientific institution there 1837; solicitor in London 1837; partner with Merrick Bircham; founded The legal discussion society, sec. and treasurer; founded with Lord Brougham and George Birkbeck, Adult instruction society; tried at Central Criminal Court April 1844 for uttering a will of one Anne Slack knowing same to be a forgery when sentenced to be transported for life; arrived at Norfolk Island 9 Nov. 1844; moved to Tasman’s Peninsula March 1847 on breaking up of Norfolk Island establishment; granted conditional pardon by royal warrant dated 12 Nov. 1846 and a free pardon 3 Nov. 1848; arrived in Paris May 1848 and in London Nov. 1848; applied for his annual certificate as a solicitor 31 Jany. 1849, certificate refused him 6 July 1850; petition for inquiry and redress presented to House of Commons 5 April 1852; granted a certificate 21 Nov. 1855; practised in London, ceased to practice 1862. The case of Mr. W. H. Barber, 8 ed. 1853; Central criminal court, minutes of evidence by H. Buckler xix, 778–850 (1844); I.L.N. iv, 80, 249 (1844), 2 portraits.
BARBOUR, Robert. b. Renfrewshire 1797; one of the merchant princes of Manchester down to about 1864 when he retired; member of the first Synod of English Presbyterian church about 1834; endowed at cost of £12,000 a chair which bears his name in Presbyterian college; purchased Bolesworth castle near Chester 1857; sheriff of Cheshire 1866. d. Bolesworth castle 17 Jany. 1885, will proved at Chester 14 April 1885, value of personalty upwards of £472,000.
BARCLAY, Andrew Whyte (son of John Barclay, captain R.N.) b. Dysart, Fifeshire 17 July 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1839; studied at Caius coll. Cam. 1843, and St. George’s hospital, London; M.B. 1847, M.D. 1852; medical registrar at St. George’s many years; F.R.C.P. 1851, examiner, councillor and censor, Lumleian lecturer 1864, Harveian orator 1881, treasurer 1884; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. soc, pres.; assistant phys. at St. George’s 1857, phys. 1862–82; the first medical officer of health at Chelsea 1856; author of Manual of medical diagnosis 1857 3 ed. 1870. d. Whitney Wood, Stevenage, Herts 28 April 1884. British Medical Journal i, 932 (1884).
BARCLAY, Arthur Kett (eld. son of Charles Barclay of Bury hill near Dorking, Surrey 1780–1855). b. 20 June 1806; ed. at Harrow; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co., brewers; built an observatory at Bury hill 1848; F.R.G.S. 1840, F.R.S. 3 June 1852; paralysed 1855. (m. 20 Dec. 1836 Maria Octavia dau. of Ichabod Wright of Mapperley, Notts). d. 20 Nov. 1869.
BARCLAY, Charles. b. 26 Dec. 1780; M.P. for Southwark 1815–1818, for Dundalk 1826–1830 and for west Surrey 1835–1837; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co.; pres. of Guy’s hospital; sheriff of Surrey 1842; F.R.G.S., F.S.A. d. Bury hill, Surrey 5 Dec. 1855.
BARCLAY, Hugh b. Glasgow 18 Jany. 1799; member of Glasgow faculty of procurators 1820; sheriff substitute of West Perthshire 1829, and of Perthshire 1833; sheriff of Perthshire 1883 to death; author of A digest of the law of Scotland 2 vols. 1852–53 4 ed. 1880; Thoughts on Sabbath schools 1855; The Sinaitic inscriptions 1866. d. Early bank Craigie near Perth 1 Feb. 1884.
BARCLAY, Right Rev. Joseph (only son of John Barclay of Strabane, co. Donegal who d. 9 Dec. 1845). b. Strabane 12 Aug. 1831; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 16 Oct. 1849 to 1854, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857, LLD. 1865, D.D. 1880; C. of Bagnalstown 1854–58; missionary at Constantinople 1858–61; incumbent of Ch. Jerusalem 1861–70; R. of Stapleford, Herts 29 March 1873; bishop of Jerusalem June 1879 to death, consecrated in St. Paul’s 25 July 1879, installed 24 Feb. 1880; held 2 ordinations and 5 confirmations; author of Talmud, Selection of treatises translated from the Mishna 1878. d. the bishop’s palace, Jerusalem 23 Oct. 1881. Joseph Barclay a missionary biography 1883, portrait.
BARCLAY, Lydia Ann (dau. of Robert Barclay of Clapham). Edited Selections from the writings of Patrick Livingstone 1847; Memoirs and letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton 1849; A journal of the life and gospel labours of John Conran 1850. d. Cockermouth 31 Jany. 1855 aged 55. A short memoir of L. A. Barclay by Wm. Hodgson, junior 1855; A selection from the letters of L. A. Barclay 1862.
BARCLAY, Sir Robert, 9 Baronet. b. Dungannon 1819; succeeded 14 Aug. 1839. d. Dungannon 19 May 1859.
BARCLAY, Robert (younger son of John Barclay, a minister in Society of Friends who d. 11 May 1838 aged 41). b. Croydon 4 Aug. 1833; a manufacturing stationer in London 1855; patented March 1860 an indelible writing paper for prevention of forgery; author of The inner life of the religious societies of the Commonwealth 1876, reissued 1877 and 1878. d. Hillside, Reigate 11 Nov. 1876. Sermons by Robert Barclay with a brief memoir edited by his widow 1878, portrait.
BARCLAY, Very Rev. Thomas (son of Rev. James Barclay, minister of Unst, Shetland). b. Unst June 1792; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1812; taught elocution at Aberdeen; a parliamentary reporter for the Times 1818–22; licensed by presbytery of Lerwick 27 June 1821; ordained 12 Sep. 1822 to parish of Dunrossness, Shetland; minister of Lerwick 13 Dec. 1827; clerk of the synod of Shetland 27 Apl. 1831; minister of Peterculter Sep. 1843, and of Currie July 1844; principal of Univ. of Glasgow 13 Feb. 1858 to death; one of the best Scandinavian scholars. d. the college, Gillmore hill, Glasgow 23 Feb. 1873. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ pt. v, 422, 426.
BARCLAY, William. b. London 1797; miniature painter; made many copies from works of Italian masters in the Louvre Paris; exhibited portraits and copies in water-colours at the Salon 1831–59 and at Royal Academy 1832–56. d. 1859.
BARDELIN, Auguste de. b. Aix in Provence; member of the Garde-du-Corps of Louis xvi; emigrated to Italy, Germany and Belgium; taught French and Italian at Norwich about 1792–1814; accompanied Louis xviii to Paris 1814; lived there till 1848 when he went to Provence. (m. 1815 or 1816 Miss Sutton). d. Nice 8 May 1852 in 85 year.
BARDIN, George Gregory. Chief inspector of machinery afloat 6 Aug. 1870; C.B. 15 Aug. 1868. d. about May 1875.
BARDSLEY, Sir James Lomax (2 son of Edward Bardsley of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 7 July 1801; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1823; physician at Manchester 1823 to death; physician to Manchester royal infirmary 1824–43; member of Manchester medical society 1834, pres. 1838–42 and 1845–47; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1853; F.R.C.P. 1859; lecturer on principles and practice of physic at Royal school of medicine Manchester 1825–43; author of Hospital facts and observations 1830 and of the articles Diabetes and Hydrophobia in the Cyclopædia of practical medicine 1833. d. The Orchard Greenheys, Manchester 10 July 1876. Photographs of eminent medical men ii, 95–98 (1868), portrait.
BARDSLEY, Samuel Argent. b. Kelvedon, Essex 27 April 1764; apprenticed to a surgeon at Nottingham; studied at Leyden Univ. 1786–89; M.D. 1789; physician at Manchester 1790; phys. to Manchester infirmary 1790 to Aug. 1823; author of Critical remarks on the tragedy of Pizarro 1800; Medical reports of cases and experiments 1807. d. near Hastings 25 May 1851.
BAREZ, Rev. Henry. Minister of the French protestant episcopal church of St. Martin Orgars formerly in Cannon st. London; granted civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840 in consideration of having taught Queen Victoria German. d. Leicester square, London 26 Dec. 1867 aged 79.
BARFF, Samuel. b. England? about 1793; lived at Zante 1816 to death, an eminent merchant and banker there; took an active part in the struggle for independence carried on by the Greek nation 1823–24. d. Zante 1 Sep. 1880 aged 87. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron; Trikoupes’ Ἰστορια τῆς Ἐλληνικῆς Ἐπαναστασεως 4 vols. 1853–57.
BARHAM, Charles Foster (4 son of Thomas Foster Barham of Penzance, Cornwall 1766–1844). b. Truro 9 March 1804; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; foundation scholar May 1823; studied in Paris and Italy 1825–28; M.B. Cam. 1827, M.D. 1860; physician Tavistock dispensary 1832–35; phys. at Truro Aug. 1837 to death; senior phys. Royal Cornwall infirmary 1838–73; pres. Royal Instit. of Cornwall 1859–61; mayor of Truro 1862; author of Report on the sanitary state of the labouring classes in the town of Truro 1842 and of many papers on meteorology and other subjects in Reports and Journal of Royal Instit. of Cornwall and other publications. d. 11 Strangways terrace, Truro 20 Oct. 1884. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 10 (1874), iii, 1048 (1882).
BARHAM, Rev. Charles Henry (youngest son of Joseph Foster Barham, M.P.) b. London 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Appleby 24 May 1832 to 3 Dec. 1832; R. of Barming, Kent about 1838–47; R. of Kirkby Thore, Westmoreland 1847–52. d. Trecwn, Pembrokeshire 15 Aug. 1878.
BARHAM, Francis Foster (5 son of Thomas Foster Barham, of Penzance). b. Leskinnick, Penzance 31 May 1808; solicitor in London 1831; joint proprietor and editor with J. A. Heraud of The new monthly Magazine and humorist 1 July 1839 to 26 May 1840; lived at Clifton 1844–54, and at Bath 1854 to death; member of Anglo Biblical Instit. 1852; a vegetarian many years; author of The Adamus Exul of Grotius or the prototype of Paradise lost, now first translated from the Latin 1839; The ecclesiastical history of Great Britain by Jeremy Collier, new ed. with a life of the author 9 vols. 1840; The Alist or divine, a message to our times 1840; The political works of Cicero translated 2 vols. 1841–42; Socrates, a tragedy in 5 acts 1842; The life and times of John Reuchlin or Capnion 1843; The new Bristol guide, a poem 1850 and many other books. d. 8 St. Mark’s place, Bath 9 Feb. 1871. A memorial of Francis Barham, edited by Isaac Pitman 1873 pp. lv. and 495 printed in the phonetic character; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 11, iii, 1048.
Note.—He advocated at one period the formation of a religious association to be called Alists or Godists, some of his works on this subject have A. F. Barham or Alist Francis Barham on the title page.
BARHAM, Thomas Foster (eld. son of Thomas Foster Barham of Penzance). b. Hendon, Middlesex 10 Sep. 1794; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., M.B. 1820; phys. at Penzance 1820 and at Exeter about 1830–49; lived at Newton Abbot, Devon 1849 to death; author of Introduction to Greek grammar 1829; Greek roots in English rhymes 1837; Philadelphia or claims of humanity 1858; contributed to transactions of Cornish scientific societies. d. Castle Dyke, Highweek, Newton Abbot 3 March 1869. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 13, iii, 1050.
BARING, Right Rev. Charles Thomas (youngest son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2 Baronet 1772–1848). b. 11 Jany. 1807; ed. privately and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; double first class 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; student of his college; C. of St. Ebbe Ox. 1830–44; select preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1846 and 1855; R. of All Souls Marylebone 28 Sep. 1847; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 7 Feb. 1851; R. of Lympsfield Surrey 1855–56; Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol July 1856, consecrated at Lambeth 10 Aug. 1856, translated to Durham 6 Nov. 1861, resigned 2 Feb. 1879; 102 new parishes were formed and 119 new churches built in diocese of Durham 1861–78. d. Cecil house, Wimbledon 14 Sep. 1879. Durham Diocesan calendar 1880 pp. 184–89.
BARING, Henry Bingham. b. York place, London 4 March 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825; M.P. for Callington 31 July 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, and for Marlborough 11 Dec. 1832 to 11 Nov. 1868; a lord of the treasury 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846. d. Nice 25 April 1869.
BARING, Thomas (2 son of Sir Thomas Baring 2 Baronet 1772–1848). b. 7 Sep. 1800; ed. at Winchester; joined banking house of Hope and Co. at Amsterdam; entered house of Baring Brothers and Co. merchants 8 Bishopgate st. London 1828, head of the firm to 1871; chairman of Lloyds 1830 to March 1868; pres. of London institution 1835 to death; M.P. for great Yarmouth 1835–37 and for Huntingdon 1844 to death; a director of Bank of England 1848–67; declined Chancellorship of the Exchequer offered him by Earl of Derby 1852 and 1858; one of the 5 comrs. of Great Exhibition 1862. d. Fontmell lodge, Bournemouth 18 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £1,500,000 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. iii, 265 (1843), portrait, xl, 215 (1862), portrait, lxiii, 501, 639 (1873); Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 174–92, iv, 93–100.
BARKER, Alexander. Lived at 103 Piccadilly, London; made a fine collection of pictures chiefly by great painters of 15th century which was sold at Christie’s 6 June 1874 for sum of £38,591, his library was sold 24–25 June 1874 for £4,019. d. Hatfield near Doncaster 24 Oct. 1873. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 125–29, iv, 71–79.
BARKER, Bernard. Editor of literary portion of The Bazaar; author of a novel called Elliot the younger 3 vols. 1878. d. 13 Sep. 1882.
BARKER, Francis. b. Waterford; ed. at Univs. of Dublin and Edinburgh, B.A. Dublin 1793, M.B. and M.D. 1810; practised at Waterford 5 years, where he opened the first fever hospital in Ireland; professor of chemistry Univ. of Dublin 1808; started first medical paper in Ireland with Dr. Todd; sec. of Irish board of health 1820–52; published with Dr. Cheyne a treatise on Epidemic fevers in Ireland 2 vols. 1821; edited the Dublin Pharmacopœia 1826. d. Wellington road, Dublin 8 Oct. 1859 aged 86.
BARKER, Right Rev. Frederic (5 son of Rev. John Barker, V. of Baslow, Derbyshire who d. 6 June 1824). b. Baslow 17 March 1808; ed. at Grantham and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1854; P.C. of Upton, Cheshire 24 April 1831 to 28 Sep. 1834; P.C. of St. Mary’s Edge hill, Liverpool 1835–54; V. of Baslow Jany. 1854; bishop of Sydney Aug. 1854 to death; created Metropolitan of Australia 19 Oct. 1854, consecrated at Lambeth 30 Nov. 1854, arrived in Sydney May 1855; pres. of the Synod of the diocese of Sydney which first met 5 Dec. 1866; author of Thirty-six psalms with commentary 1854. d. San Remo, Italy 6 April 1882. bur. Baslow 18 April. I.L.N. lxxx, 452, (1882), portrait; Graphic xxv, 448 (1882), portrait.
BARKER, George. Entered navy 1 June 1771; captain 8 June 1799; admiral on h.p. 27 Dec. 1847. d. Spring Vale, Isle of Wight 25 Dec. 1851 in 92 year.
BARKER, George Arthur. b. 1812; Tenor singer and vocal composer; his song “The White Squall” 1835 has passed through many editions and is still frequently sung. d. Aylestone near Leicester 2 March 1876.
BARKER, Sir George Robert (youngest son of John Barker, deputy storekeeper general). b. London 1817; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1834; lieut. col. 1 June 1855 to death; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 16 May 1859 for capturing stronghold of Birwah. d. Simla, India 27 July 1861.
BARKER, Henry Aston (younger son of Robert Barker of Leicester square, London, reputed inventor of panoramas 1739–1806). b. Glasgow 1774; pupil at Royal Academy; assisted his father in his panoramas 1789–1806; carried on the business in Leicester square 1806–20; opened a building occupying site of present Strand theatre as Reinagle and Barker’s New Panorama 1820; exhibited a series of panoramas here with his pupil John Burford to 1826; realised £10,000 by his panorama of battle of Waterloo 1842. (m. 1802 Harriet Maria eld. dau. of Wm. Bligh, admiral R.N., she d. 26 Feb. 1856). d. Bitton near Bristol 19 July 1856. G.M. i, 515–18 (1856); Art Journal ix, 47 (1857).
BARKER, John. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, M.B. 1846, M.D. 1863; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1846, M.R.C.S. 1863; demonstrator of anatomy Univ. of Dublin; curator of museum of Royal college of surgeons Dublin; M.R.I.A. and F.R.S. Dublin; author of Cryptogamic part of Steele’s Handbook of field botany 1847. d. 83 Waterloo road, Dublin 2 Feb. 1879 aged 63.
BARKER, John Henry. b. Ashford hall, Derbyshire 1806; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 3 May 1836; magistrate at Worship st. police court, London July 1860 and at Clerkenwell police court Jany. 1863 to 3 Aug. 1874. d. East lodge, Bakewell Derbyshire 28 Jany. 1876.
BARKER, Joseph. b. Bramley near Leeds 11 May 1806; a travelling preacher of Methodist new connexion at Hanley 1829; stationed on Sheffield and Mossley circuits successively; edited Evangelical Reformer a weekly periodical 1837–40; expelled from the above Society 1841 on ground that he had denied divine appointment of baptism; pastor of a congregation of Barkerites at Newcastle; edited The Christian Investigator 2 vols. 1842–43; became a Unitarian 1845; presented with a steam press at Wortley, Leeds 6 July 1846; issued a library of 300 volumes being cheapest books then ever issued; edited The People 1846, 20,000 copies of which were sold weekly; a town councillor at Leeds 1848; tried as a Chartist but acquitted 1848; emigrated to Central Ohio 1851; a leading abolitionist; lectured in United States 1857–59; sailed for England 11 Jany. 1860; edited Barker’s Review 3 vols. 1862–63; joined the Primitive Methodists at Tunstall; a local preacher to 1868 when he went to America; author of many books. d. Omaha, Nebraska 15 Sep. 1875. Life of Joseph Barker 1880, portrait; Methodist new connexion mag. July 1842, Sep. 1843 and Dec. 1875.
BARKER, Peter. b. 10 July 1808; lost his sight 1812; a skilful performer on the violin; a carpenter at Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire; sang in the church choir; one of the bell ringers, curfew bell is rung at Hampsthwaite at 8 every evening. d. in his cottage near churchyard gate, Hampsthwaite 18 Feb. 1873. Life of Peter Barker, Pately Bridge 1873; S. Baring-Gould’s Yorkshire Oddities i, 177–82 (1874).
BARKER, Rev. Ralph. Ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1821; V. of Pagham near Chichester 1850 to death; rural dean of Chichester 1858 to death; co-editor of The Protestant Guardian 1827–29, and of The Quarterly educational magazine 2 vols. 1847–49; author of sermons, pamphlets and reviews. d. 1871.
BARKER, Thomas. b. Carlton near Nottingham 15 Nov. 1798; a lace maker there; professional cricketer at Cambridge 1822 and 1841–45; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground, London about 1835–41; an umpire at Cambridge 1846 and in London 1856. d. Nottingham 2 March 1877.
BARKER, Thomas Herbert. b. Dunstable 31 Oct. 1814; studied at Univ. coll. London 1834–35; L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1842, F.R.C.S. 1851; M.B. London 1845, M.D. 1847; practised at Bedford; one of the very best general practitioners in England; recorded for many years a series of meteorological observations which were incorporated in reports of the Registrar General; F.R.S. Edin.; author of Practical observations on the diet of infancy and childhood 1850; On the hygienic management of infants and children 1859. d. Harpur place, Bedford 24 Oct. 1865. Photographs of eminent medical men i, 117–23 (1866), portrait; British Medical Journal ii, 481–84 (1865).
BARKER, Thomas Jones (eld. son of Thomas Barker of Bath, painter 1769–1847). b. Bath 1815; pupil of Horace Vernet in Paris; exhibited many pictures at the Salon where he gained 3 gold medals; painted several pictures for Louis Philippe; returned to England 1845; gained appellation of the ‘English Horace Vernet’; exhibited 29 pictures at the R.A., 34 at British Institution and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–76; painted many pictures in France during the German war 1870. d. Avon house, Steele’s road, Haverstock hill, London 27 March 1882. Times 29 March 1882, p. 10, col. 1.
BARKER, Thomas Rawson. b. Bakewell, Derbyshire 9 April 1812; a lead merchant at Sheffield; mayor of Sheffield 1848; played in many great cricket matches; a right-handed batsman but a left round-armed bowler. d. The Edge, Sheffield 26 April 1873.
BARKER, Thomas Richard. b. London 30 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ’s Hospital 1807–16; entered Homerton old college 1821; independent minister at Alresford Hants 1822, at Harpenden Herts 1824 and at Uxbridge 1833–38; tutor in classics at Spring Hill college Birmingham 1838 to death. d. near the College 12 Nov. 1870. Congregational year book 1871 pp. 302–304.
BARKER, William (only son of Francis Barker, M.D., professor of chemistry in Univ. of Dublin). Assistant to his father many years; prof. of natural philosophy to Royal Society of Dublin 1848; prof. of chemistry R.C.S. Ireland 1850 to death; edited Parkes’s Chemical Catechism 1837 and 1854; M.R.I.A. 25 Jany. 1836. d. Hatch st. Dublin 11 Sep. 1873 aged 63.
BARKER, William Burckhardt (son of John Barker 1771–1849, British consul general in Egypt). b. Aleppo about 1810; taken to England 1819; resided at Tarsus in an official capacity many years; professor of the Arabic Turkish, Persian and Hindustani languages at Eton; chief superintendent of British land transport depot at Sinope 1855 to death; author of Lares and Penates or Cilicia and its governors 1853; Odessa and its inhabitants 1855; A short historical account of the Crimea 1855. d. Sinope 28 Jany. 1856 aged 45. E. B. Barker’s Syria and Egypt 2 vols. 1876.
BARKER, William Gideon Michael Jones. b. 27 Aug. 1817; author of The three days of Wensleydale, the valley of the Yore 1854. d. Leeds 10 April 1855.
BARKLEY, John Trevor. b. Yetminster, Dorset 12 Oct. 1826; resident engineer on Whitehaven and Furness railway; manager of coalfields of Heraclea in Turkey 1850–55; constructed Danube and Black Sea railway 40 miles long (which was sold to Roumanian government Nov. 1882) and several other lines in east of Europe, also upwards of 20 bridges chiefly on the Bucharest and Varna line; returned to England about 1869; member of Iron and Steel Institute 1873. d. 8 Jany. 1882. Journal of Iron and Steel institute No. 2, 1882 651–53.
BARLEE, Sir Frederick Palgrave (son of Rev. Edward Barlee 1788–1853, R. of Worlingworth, Suffolk). b. 1827; served in ordnance department 1844–55; colonial sec. of Western Australia 1855–77; member of legislative council to Nov. 1875; lieut. governor of British Honduras 1877–1883; left England to administer the government of Trinidad 2 June 1884; C.M.G. 30 May 1877, K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. (m. 2 April 1851 Jane youngest dau. of Edward Oseland of Coleraine). d. Trinidad 8 Aug. 1884.
BARLING, John. b. Weymouth 11 Aug. 1804; congregationalist minister at Square Chapel, Halifax 1829–34; Unitarian minister at Northgate end, Halifax Jany. 1854 to Jany. 1858; author of A review of Trinitarianism 1847; Leaves from my writing desk by an old student 1872. d. Leeds 20 Aug. 1883.
BARLOW, Charles Anstruther. b. 5 Feb. 1800; entered navy 1812; commanded the Nimrod 20 guns 1839–41; captain 8 June 1841; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841. d. Hammersmith 31 Dec. 1855.
BARLOW, Rev. Edward William (only son of Dr. Barlow, M.D. of New Sydney Place, Bath). ed. at Ex. Coll. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836, D.D. 1865; C. of Rochford, Essex; author of A brief manual on writing Latin 1834; A treatise on the state of the soul 1843; The Apocrypha, its use and abuse 1850; Clerical manual 2 parts 1852; A compilation on Dilapidations 1853. d. Cleveland villa, Bath 13 Feb. 1869 aged 57.
BARLOW, George Hilaro (4 son of Rev. Thomas Wm. Barlow 1760–1821 preb. of Bristol). b. 2 May 1806; midshipman R.N.; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, M.D. 1841; studied at Univ. of Edin. and Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1842; assistant phys. to Guy’s hospital 1840, phys. 1843; one of editors of Guy’s hospital reports; chairman of New Equitable life assurance company 1856, and of the Briton medical and general life association 1862. d. Longton lodge, Sydenham 13 Oct. 1866. Lancet ii, 454–55 (1866).
BARLOW, Henry Clark (only child of Henry Barlow of Newington Butts, London 1783–1858). b. 6, Churchyard row, Newington Butts 12 May 1806; studied at Royal Academy and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 3 Aug. 1837; spent 5 years in Italy 1841–45; F.G.S. 1864; took a prominent part in Dante festival at Florence 14–16 May 1865; Cavalier of order of the Saints Maurice and Lazarus June 1865; author of Industry on Christian principles 1851; Francesca da Rimini her lament and vindication 1859 2 ed. 1875; Essays on Symbolism 1866. d. Salzburg 8 Nov. 1876. A brief memoir of H. C. Barlow, privately printed 1868; Quarterly journal of Geological society xxxiii, 60–62 (1877).
Note.—He left by will £1,000 consols to University College London for the endowment of an annual course of lectures on the ‘Divina Commedia’ as well as all the books and prints in his library which related to Dante and Italian history and literature; he also left £500 consols to the Geological Society for the furtherance of geological science.
BARLOW, John. b. the Oak farm, Chorley, Cheshire 20 Sep. 1815; studied at Veterinary college Edin. 1842; assistant professor and lecturer on Zootomy at same college 1845 to death; member of Physiological Society. d. 1 Pilrig st. Edin. 29 Jany. 1856. A memoir of John Barlow 1858.
BARLOW, Rev. John. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; sec. of Royal Institution 1842–60; chaplain in ordinary at Kensington palace 12 Oct. 1854 to Sep. 1867. d. 5 Berkeley st. Piccadilly 8 July 1869 aged 70.
BARLOW, Maurice. Ensign 85 foot 21 July 1814; lieut. col. 14 foot 25 Dec. 1847 to 27 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general in the Crimea 30 July 1855; col. of 3 West India regiment 8 June 1863 and of 14 foot 9 Aug. 1870 to death; general 21 March 1874. d. Florence 12 April 1875.
BARLOW, Peter. b. parish of St. Simon, Norwich 13 Oct. 1776; mathematical master at Royal military academy Woolwich 1801; mathematical professor there to 1847 when he retired on full pay; gold medallist of Society of Arts 1821; F.R.S. 29 May 1823, Copley medallist 1825 for his discoveries in magnetism; F.S.A. 1829, F.R.A.S. 1829; a corresponding member of Academies of Brussells and Paris; one of Irish railway comrs. 19 Oct. 1836; invented method of compensating compass errors in ships whereby difficulty of navigation was in a great measure overcome, for which he received from board of longitude a grant of £500; contributed largely to Encyclopædia Metropolitana and Rees’s Encyclopædia; author of A new mathematical and philosophical dictionary 1814; Essay on the strength of timber and other materials 1817, 6 ed. 1867; Essay on magnetic attractions 1820, 2 ed. 1823. d. Old Charlton, Kent 1 March 1862. Proc. of Royal Society xii, 33–34 (1863); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii, 615–18 (1863).
BARLOW, Peter William (elder son of the preceding). b. 1800; A.I.C.E. 1826, M.I.C.E. 1845, Telford medallist 1845; engaged upon construction of Liverpool and Birmingham canal and the New London docks; resident engineer on London and Dover since called South Eastern railway; planned and executed Reading and Reigate and Tonbridge and Hastings branches 1841–46; designed and constructed Lambeth bridge opened 11 Nov. 1862, cheapest bridge in London, cost only £30,000; planned the Tower Subway opened Feb. 1870; F.R.S. 20 Nov. 1845. d. 56 Lansdowne road, Notting hill, London 20 May 1885.
BARLOW, Sir Robert, 2 Baronet. b. Calcutta 24 Sep. 1797; in the Bengal civil service 1817 to death; succeeded 18 Dec. 1846. d. Hanover square, London 21 Jany. 1857.
BARLOW, Thomas Worthington (only son of Wm. Worthington Barlow of Cranage, Cheshire). barrister G.I. 14 June 1848; practised at Manchester; Queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone April 1856 to death; F.L.S. April 1848; author of The mystic number, a glance at the system of nature 1852; Memoir of W. Broome 1855; edited The Cheshire and Lancashire historical collector 2 vols. 1853–55. d. Freetown, Sierra Leone 10 Aug. 1856 aged 33.