. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... tobe second justice of Chester. His |>rin-cipal works are Ohser\atioiis on tlieSla-itutesi; tiie Naturalists Calendar; Miscel-lanies, and Tracts on the Possibility ofreaching tlie North Pole. It was at his8ug;;estiiin that the arctic voyage of Captain ,Phipps was undertaken. BARKINGLON, Samukl, lifth son ofLord Harrington, was born in 1729, en-tered early into the navy, distinguished Ihimself in the wars that endiil in 17-18jand 1762, was made rear-admiral in 1778,to^k St. Lucia, in
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... tobe second justice of Chester. His |>rin-cipal works are Ohser\atioiis on tlieSla-itutesi; tiie Naturalists Calendar; Miscel-lanies, and Tracts on the Possibility ofreaching tlie North Pole. It was at his8ug;;estiiin that the arctic voyage of Captain ,Phipps was undertaken. BARKINGLON, Samukl, lifth son ofLord Harrington, was born in 1729, en-tered early into the navy, distinguished Ihimself in the wars that endiil in 17-18jand 1762, was made rear-admiral in 1778,to^k St. Lucia, in the face of a superiorforce, was wounded in the engagement ofllie 1st of July, 1779, and died in 1800. BARKOS, John uos, one of the bestof the historians, was horn atViseu, in 1496, held various highly im-portant oHices in the colonies, and died in1570. Barros is the author, among otiierthings, of a Romance; Mural Dialogues;and the first Portuguese Granimur that waspublished. But his great work is a His-tory of Portuguese Asia, in four decades,which is looked upon as a classical BARROW, Isaac, a divine and mathe-matician, horn in 1630, was the son of aJinendraper of London, and was educatedat the Charterhouse and at his education was completed, he tra-velled in France, Italy, and the Levant,and resided for a year at his voyage to Sinvrna, the ship wasattacked by an Algerine, ami Barrow dis-plavtvl an undaunted coiuage which muchcontributeil to the su(r(ess of llie eiigMge-ment. In 1659, he returned to Enijiand,successively (died several professorships,\\;is made master of Trinity College in1672, vice chancellor in 1675, anil died inlt>77. l( wit, in learning, in mieMliricknowledge, in versatile talent, Barrow rivals. His numipdus mathematicalproductions attest his excellence as a geo-meter; anil his woiks, whichfill three volumes, are eiiually honourableto him as a divine. BARRUEL, ,\BBK AboiK
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