Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
Great Britain -- Biography -- Dictionaries
BARRY, WILLIAM WIGRAM (_brother of Sir Redmond Barry_). _b._ 28 May
1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1846; col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death;
brigadier general Bombay 23 July 1877 to 4 April 1879; M.G. 1 May
1880; granted service reward 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. _d._
Hotel Royal, Naples 19 April 1883.
BARRYMORE, MRS. (_dau. of Mr. Adams_). _b._ 1783; dancer at the old
Royal Circus now Surrey Theatre, London 1803; the most graceful
dancer in London for some years; her power of pantomimic
expression as the dumb girl Finella contributed much to success of
Auber’s opera Massaniello when first produced at Drury Lane 4 May
1829; made her début in America at the Park Theatre, New York 21
Aug. 1831; taught dancing at Boston to 1846. (_m._ William
Barrymore of London, dramatist who _d._ Boston 16 Feb. 1845). _d._
London 6 Jany. 1863.
BARSTOW, JAMES PULTENEY (_eld son of Nathaniel Barstow, of Wetherby,
Yorkshire_). Barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1824; bencher 1 May 1854;
treasurer 30 Jan. 1856. _d._ Sandgate, Folkestone 8 Sep. 1873.
BARTER, CHARLES. Worked in Royal botanic gardens, Kew 1849–51;
foreman of Royal botanic society Regents Park 1851–57; botanist to
Niger expedition under W. B. Baikie 1857 to death; author of _The
Dorp and the Veld or six months in Natal_ 1852. _d._ Rabba on the
Niger 15 July 1859.
BARTER, RICHARD. _b._ Cooldaniel, co. Cork 1802; M.R.C.S. 1828;
Physician of Dispensary Inniscana, Cork; opened St. Anne’s water
cure establishment at Blarney; set up the first hot-air baths in
Ireland, also the first hot-air baths without vapour—the so-called
Turkish bath. _d._ Blarney 3 Oct. 1870. _Recollections of the late
Dr. Barter, Dublin_ 1875.
BARTER, REV. ROBERT SPECCOTT (_youngest son of Rev. Charles Barter
V. of Cornworthy near Totnes, Devon, 71 years who d. 26 April 1846
aged 97_). _b._ Cornworthy 3 July 1790; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch.
Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1815; commoner tutor at
Winchester to Dec. 1814; tutor of New college 1815–30 when he
resigned; Bursar 1817, Poser 1817, Sub-warden 1820; Warden of
Winchester 18 May 1822 to death. _d._ College st. Winchester 8
Feb. 1861. _Rev. H. C. Adams’s History of Winchester college_
(1878) _pp._ 322–42.
BARTER, REV. WILLIAM BRUDENELL (_elder brother of the preceding_).
_b._ Jany. 1788; ed. at Tiverton, Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; Fellow of Oriel coll. 1811; tutor in family
of Lord Carnarvon; R. of Highclere, Hants 1825 to death; R. of
Burghclere, Hants 1825 to death; published many letters and
pamphlets on the topics of the day. _d._ Burghclere 16 Nov. 1858.
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