Barrow, Sir John
(male)
06/19/1764 - 11/23/1848
English
Promoter of exploration and author; baronet; started as clerk in iron foundry; served in China and in Cape Colony; served as secretary in Admiralty; president of Royal Geographical Society; wrote travel literature and biographies; wrote for Quarterly Review, Edinburgh Review, and Encyclopaedia Britannica. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)