Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
General
Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
Great Britain -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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).
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