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. 1851. G.M. xxxv, 433 (1851).
BARMBY, John Goodwyn. b. Yoxford, Suffolk 1820; associated with revolutionists in London 1837; went to Paris 1840; founded the Communist Propaganda Society 1841, afterwards known as the Universal Communitarian Association; a practical preacher of Christian Socialism; Unitarian minister at Southampton, Topsham and Lancaster successively and at Wakefield 1858–79; edited a periodical called The Promethean 1842; author of The poetry of home and childhood 1853; The return of the swallow and other poems 1864; Aids to devotion 1865; wrote many tracts and hymns and articles in periodicals. d. The Vines, Yoxford 18 Oct. 1881. Frost’s forty years recollections (1880) 54–75; Unitarian Herald xxi, 358 (1881).
BARNARD, Sir Andrew Francis (son of Rev. Dr. Henry Barnard of Bovagh, co. Londonderry). b. Fahan, co. Donegal 1773; ensign 90 foot 26 Aug. 1794; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 29 March 1810; commanded 2 brigade of light division in the Peninsula 16 Feb. 1814; commanded British division in Paris 1815; col. of 1 battalion Rifle Brigade 25 Aug. 1822 to death; clerk marshal of the King’s household 1830–37, of the Queen Dowager’s household 1837–49; lieut. governor of Chelsea hospital 26 Nov. 1849 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 20 June 1840, G.C.H. 1834. d. Royal hospital Chelsea 17 Jany. 1855. Cope’s History of the rifle brigade 1877; Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, 2 series i, 250–79.
BARNARD, Charlotte Alington. b. 23 Dec. 1830; composed about 100 popular ballads under pseudonym of Claribel 1858–69 two of the best known are “Come back to Erin” and “We’d better bide a wee”; author of Thoughts, verses and songs. (m. 18 May 1854 Rev. Charles Cary Barnard, R. of Brocklesby, Lincs.) d. Dover 30 Jany. 1869. The Choirmaster March 1869.
BARNARD, Edward. b. 14 March 1786; ed. at Eton; in the colonial office 1804 to death; agent general for Crown colonies 1825 to death; F.L.S. 17 Feb. 1818. d. 13 Dec. 1861.
BARNARD, Edward. Entered navy 12 May 1797; captain 4 July 1817; retired admiral 22 Nov. 1862. (m. Aug. 1811 Mary Parkins). d. Hipswell lodge, Richmond, Yorkshire 5 Oct. 1863 aged 82. O’Byrne 1861 p. 48.
BARNARD, Edward George. A shipbuilder at Deptford; M.P. for Greenwich 14 Dec. 1832 to death; purchased Gosfield hall, Essex from the Marquess of Buckingham. d. Gosfield hall 14 June 1851 aged 73. Wright’s Essex ii, 1 (1836).
BARNARD, Frederick Lamport. b. 20 Feb. 1813; entered navy 3 June 1827; captain 10 Oct. 1855; captain of the Mœander 10 guns 23 Feb. 1861 to 14 June 1864; retired V.A. 30 Jany. 1879. d. 28 July 1880.
BARNARD, Sir Henry William (son of Rev. Wm. Barnard of Water Stratford, Bucks). b. Westbury, Bucks 1799; ed. at Westminster and Sandhurst; ensign 1 foot guards 9 June 1814, captain 1831–49 when placed on h.p.; commanded South Wales district 1852–54 and one of the brigades in Crimea 1854–55; chief of the staff in Crimea 28 June 1855; commanded 2nd division of British army in Crimea; commanded troops before Delhi June 1857 to death; C.B. 27 July 1855, K.C.B. 3 May 1856. (m. 17 Jany. 1828 Isabella Letitia 2 dau. of James Catlin Craufurd, brigadier general, she was granted a civil list pension of £200 15 Feb. 1858). d. of cholera before Delhi 5 July 1857. Kaye’s Sepoy war in India ii, 513–70, 678 (1870).
BARNARD, John. Fellow of King’s coll. Cam. 1818 to death; F.S.A. 3 May 1855. d. King’s coll. Cam. 16 Nov. 1878 aged 84.
BARNE, George Huxley (2 son of John Barne of Tiverton). ed. at Magd. coll. Ox; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1866; attorney general of Jamaica March 1874 to death. d. Kingston, Jamaica 8 March 1876.
BARNES, Christopher Hewetson. b. 7 Feb. 1833; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 9 Dec. 1852; lieut. col. R.A. 31 Dec. 1878 to death; commanded R. A. in Egypt to death, d. Cairo 28 Sep. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv, 373 (1881), portrait.
BARNES, George Carnac (eld. son of Ven. George Barnes 1784–1847, archdeacon of Barnstaple). ed. at Westminster 1833–35; comr. of the Cis-Sutlej States; foreign sec. at Calcutta 1861 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Hazareebagh, Bengal 13 May 1861.
BARNES, James. Lieutenant Royal horse guards 29 Aug. 1811 to 3 Nov. 1814 when he retired; major in command of Radnor Militia 15 Feb. 1828 to 21 March 1846. d. Portishead near Bristol June 1853 aged 64.
BARNES, James Hindmarsh. ed. at Charing Cross and Westminster Ophthalmic hospitals; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1857; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1860; practised in London; visiting surgeon to the workhouse hospital, Liverpool 1874; superintendent registrar 1874 to death; author of Notes on surgical nursing. d. 57 Pembroke place, Liverpool 19 March 1880 aged 47. Medical Times and gazette i, 387 (1880).
BARNES, John (son of Thomas Barnes of Newcastle, coal viewer, who d. 1801). b. Walker colliery near Newcastle 12 Aug. 1798; in the Soho works of Boulton and Watt 1813–15; studied at univ. of Edin. 1815–17; manufacturing engineer with Joseph Miller in London 1822–35, made many engines for French steamers; constructed the Sophia Jane the first steam vessel ever employed in Australia 1831; manager of the works at La Ciotat near Marseilles 1845 to death; much improved the French steam navy; M.I.C.E. 1823. d. La Ciotat 24 Sep. 1852. bur. Long Benton near Newcastle. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 140–48 (1853).
BARNES, Mary (dau. of Mr. Greenhill). b. London; acted in the provinces as Miss Simpson; acted at Haymarket and Drury Lane; made her first appearance in America at the Park theatre New York 17 April 1816 as Juliet; a great actress in tragedy, melodrama and pantomime; took farewell of the stage 2 Nov. 1841. (m. John Barnes a comedian who d. 28 Aug. 1841 aged 60). d. Vandam st. New York 26 Aug. 1864 in 84 year.
BARNES, Ralph (4 son of Rev. Ralph Barnes, archdeacon of Totnes, Devon who d. 20 May 1820 aged 87). b. 14 July 1781; ed. at Exeter gr. school; admitted attorney 25