Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

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. BARLOW, SIR WILLIAM OWEN, 8 Baronet (_only son of Wm. Owen, a brigadier general_). _b._ 11 April 1775; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1799, bencher 1838; tubman of Court of Exchequer 1809, postman 1815–1837; succeeded his uncle 4 Jany. 1817; attorney general for Carmarthen circuit many years; took name of Barlow 1844; lived in Fig tree court Temple 1799 to death. _d._ 5 Fig tree court 25 Feb.