Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics

Variant names

Dates:

Birth 1750

Death 1750

Nationality: Britons,

Language: English,

Biographical notes:

Epithet: FRS; Keeper of the Records of the Admiralty

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Epithet: Secretary to the Admiralty

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Epithet: Keeper of Records of the Admiralty

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Epithet: of Add MS 42712

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Epithet: teacher of mathematics

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John Barrow was born in 1808, the second son of Sir John Barrow, second secretary to the Admiralty. He was educated at Charterhouse and from 1824 served as clerk and from 1844 as head of the Record Office at the Admiralty. Barrow took an active part in promoting the search for Sir John Franklin's missing Northwest Passage expedition. He was a founder member of the Hakluyt Society and served as a lieutenant colonel of a volunteer battalion of the Rifle Brigade. He died on 9 December 1898.

From the guide to the John Barrow collection, 1848-1860, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)

Epithet: Mayor of Bristol

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Epithet: FRS

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