JOSHUA

See also:

• BARNES, ALBERT (1798–1870)
• BARNES, BARNABE (1569 ?–16o9)
• JOSHUA BARNES (1654-1712)
• BARNES, ROBERT (1495-1540)
• BARNES, SIR EDWARD (1776-1838)
• BARNES, THOMAS (1785-1841)
• BARNES, W
• BARNES, WILLIAM (1800-1886)

BARNES (1654-1712)  , English scholar, was born in London on the loth of January 1654 . Educated at Christ's Hospital and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen regius professor of Greek, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility . One of his first publications was entitled Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675), a whimsical sketch to which Swift's Voyage to Lilliput possibly owes something . Among his other works are a History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III . (1688), in which he introduces long and elaborate speeches into the narrative; editions of Euripides (1694) and of Hornet (1711), also one of Anacreon (1705) which contains titles of Greek verses of his own which he hoped to publish . He died on the 3rd of August 1712, at Hemingford, near St Ives, Hunts .