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    Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS, FSA (19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848) was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant best known...
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  • Jocelyn Barrow (1929–2020), British educator, community activist and politician Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764–1848), English statesman John Barrow (U...
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    Hoad Monument (officially called the Sir John Barrow Monument) is a 100-foot (30 m) tower at the top of the 436-foot (133 m) Hoad Hill, near Ulverston...
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    seventh Baronet, who succeeded in 2009. Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764–1848) Sir George Barrow, 2nd Baronet (1806–1876) Sir John Croker Barrow, 3rd Baronet...
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  • John Barrow may refer to: John Abarough (died 1540), Barow or Barrow, (died c. 1540), English politician Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764–1848), English...
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  • Sir George Barrow, 2nd Baronet, CMG (22 October 1806 – 1876) was an English civil servant. Barrow was the eldest son of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet and...
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    Sir Charles Barrow, 1st Baronet (1707–89), of Hygrove, Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, was an English politician. Barrow was born in 1708 at St. Christopher...
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    Colonel Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, PC, MP, FRS, FRSE, FSA (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835), was a Scottish politician, military officer and writer...
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    Sir John Ponsonby Conroy, 1st Baronet, KCH (21 October 1786 – 2 March 1854) was a British Army officer who served as comptroller to the Duchess of Kent...
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  • Peter Barrow (30 July 1813 – 6 October 1899) was a son of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, and an early settler in the colony of Western Australia, becoming...
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  • August 1777 - Anna Maria Truter, botanical artist and wife of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, is born in Cape Town 1771 - Ryk Tulbagh, Governor of the Cape...
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  • Andries Pretorius, dies near present-day Bela Bela 23 November - Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, early explorer of Southern Africa, writer, and English Statesman...
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    (1927—2014), GOC 1st Division Major-General Frederick John Alfieri (1826—1907), GOC Aldershot Command General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet (1826—1907)...
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    the young George Staunton had begun to learn Chinese alongside Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet and for the duration was therefore given the role of Page to...
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    General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, KStJ (15 June 1860 – 7 December 1929) was a British Army General in the First World...
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  • Truter, Cape Colony botanical artist and wife of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet. (b. 1777) "Grey, Sir George (1812–1898)". Australian Dictionary of Biography...
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  • in honour of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, Permanent Secretary to British prime minister Lord (Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey). John Barrow Island in the...
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  • children including Anna Maria Truter, who later became the wife of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet. In 1801 P.J. Truter helped lead the Truter-Somerville Expedition...
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  • the Murderer Giacomo Leopardi – Canti Edgar Allan Poe – Poems Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet – The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of...
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    his son, Thomas, who served the mission as a page. John Barrow (later Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet) served as the embassy's comptroller. Joining the mission...
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    before 1780, adventurer Coenraad de Buys visited the area, as did Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, who was not fond of the Trekboers' behavior. The local inhabitants...
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    Victoria Land between Cape Barrow and Cape Adare. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, who named it for Dr. John Robertson, surgeon on...
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    Anna Maria Truter (category Barrow family)
    portfolio of Cape flower studies and landscapes. Her husband, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, became Second Secretary to the Admiralty in 1804, and authored...
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  • Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812)) 25 May – John Mason Good, writer (died 1827) 19 June – Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, author and statesman (died 1848) 21 June...
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    from Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor of London, the founder of the family banking business, Hoare's Bank. His parents were Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Baronet (1735–1787)...
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  • George Stephenson, locomotive pioneer (born 1781) 23 November – Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, statesman (born 1764) 24 November – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount...
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    Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, GCB FRS KLS (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician, and Orientalist...
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    Sir Charles William Cayzer, 1st Baronet (15 July 1843 – 28 September 1916) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. Born in Limehouse...
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  • Steamship Co. (passengers). Sir Charles Cayzer represented Barrow-in-Furness in the House of Commons. The third Baronet sat as a Conservative Member...
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    (Maimaijie) in the Summer palace was staffed by eunuch actors. Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet noted on his visit to the Qing summer palace as part of the Macartney...
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