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| John Barrow | |||
| Only son of Roger Barrow. | |||
| 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). | |||
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