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John Barrow | |
Only son of Roger Barrow. |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Event |
19 June 1764 | | Born (Dragley Beck, Ulverston, Lancashire). |
17?? | | Educated as Town Bank Grammar School at Ulverston. |
17?? | | Sailed in Greenland whaler. |
1775 | | Comptroller of the household, and interpreter to Lord Macartney, Ambassador in China. |
17?? | | Private secretary to Lord Macartney, Cape of Good Hope. |
1778 | 1781 | Timekeeper in a Liverpool ironfoundry. |
August 1798 | | Married Anna Maria, daughter of Peter John Tr?ter, a Stellenbosch judge. |
1803 | | Returned to England. |
22 May 1804 | 9 February 1806 | Appointed Second secretary of the Admiralty by Lord Melville. |
1806 | | Fellow of the Royal Society. |
8 April 1807 | 28 January 1845 | Second Secretary to the Admiralty. |
1830 | | Founder member and Chairman of (later Royal) Geographical Society. |
30 March 1835 | | Baronet. |
23 November 1848 | | Died (aged 85). |
Literature: (DNB; Flemming). |