Second son of Sir John Barrow; clerk at admiralty; keeper of the records; wrote Excursions in the North of Europe thru parts of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, & Norway (1835); Tour in Austrian Lombardy, the Northern Tyrol and Bavaria (1841); The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake (1843), other works. See Boase IV: 286. ODNB under Sir John Barrow.