Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

DAINES BARRINGTON (1727-1800)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 436 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

DAINES See also:

BARRINGTON (1727-1800)  ,Englishlawyer, See also:antiquary and naturalist, was See also:born in 1727, See also:fourth son of the first See also:Viscount See also:Barrington . He was educated for the profession of the See also:law, and after filling various posts, was appointed a Welsh See also:judge in 1757 and afterwards second See also:justice of See also:Chester . Though an indifferent judge, his Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more See also:ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st See also:James I., cap . 27, with an appendix, being a proposal for new-modelling the Statutes (1766), had a high reputation among historians and constitutional antiquaries . In 1773 he published an edition of See also:Orosius, with See also:Alfred's Saxon version, and an See also:English See also:translation with See also:original notes . His Tracts on the See also:Probability of reaching the See also:North See also:Pole (1775) were written in consequence of the See also:northern voyage of See also:discovery undertaken by See also:Captain C . J . Phipps, afterwards See also:Lord See also:Mulgrave (1744-1792) . Barrington's other writings are chiefly to be found in the publications of the Royal and Antiquarian See also:Societies, of both of which he was See also:long a member, and of the latter See also:vice-See also:president . Many of these were collected by him in a See also:quarto See also:volume entitled Miscellanies on various Subjects (1781) . He contributed to the Philosophical Transactions for 178o an See also:account of See also:Mozart's visit at eight years of See also:age to See also:London . In his Miscellanies on varied subjects he included this with accounts of four other prodigies, namely, See also:Crotch, See also:Charles and See also:Samuel See also:Wesley, and See also:Garrett See also:Wellesley, Lord Mornington .

Among the most curious and ingenious of his papers are his Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds, and his See also:

Essay on the See also:Language of Birds . He died on the 14th of See also:March 1800 and was buried in the See also:Temple See also:church .

End of Article: DAINES BARRINGTON (1727-1800)
[back]
BARRILRE
[next]
GEORGE BARRINGTON (b. 1755)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.