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See also: English statesman, was See also: born in the See also: village of Dragley See also: Beck in the parish of See also: Ulverston in See also: Lancashire, on the 19th of See also: June 1764
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He started in See also: life as superintending clerk of an iron foundry at Liverpool and after- ' wards taught See also: mathematics at a school in See also: Greenwich
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Through the See also: interest of See also: Sir See also: George Staunton, to whose son he taught mathematics, he was attached on the first See also: British See also: embassy to See also: China as See also: comptroller of the See also: household to See also: Lord Macartney
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He soon acquired a See also: good knowledge of the See also: Chinese language, on which he subsequently contributed interesting articles to the Quarterly Review; and the account of the embassy published by Sir George Staunton records many of See also: Barrow's valuable contributions to literature and science connected with China
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Although Barrow ceased to be officially connected with Chinese affairs after the return. of the embassy in 1794, he always took much interest in them, and on critical occasions was frequently consulted by the British See also: government
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In 1797 he accompanied Lord Macartney, as private secretary, in his important and delicate See also: mission to See also: settle the government of the newly acquired colony of the Cape of Good Hope
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Barrow was entrusted with the task of reconciling.the Boers and Kaffirs and of See also: reporting on the country in the interior
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On his return from his journey, in the course of which he visited all parts of the colony, he was appointed auditor-general of public accounts
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He now decided to settle in See also: South See also: Africa, married See also: Anne Maria Truter, and in 'Soo bought a See also: house in Cape See also: Town
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But the surrender of the colony at the See also: peace of See also: Amiens (1802) upset this See also: plan
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He returned to See also: England in 1804, was appointed by Lord See also: Melville second secretary to the See also: admiralty, a See also: post which he held for
See also: forty years
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He enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all the eleven chief lords who successively presided at the admiralty See also: board during that See also: period, and more especially of See also: King
See also: William IV. while lord high
See also: admiral, who honoured him with tokens of his See also: personal regard
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Barrow was a See also: fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1821 received the degree of LL.D. from See also: Edinburgh University
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A baronetcy was conferred on him by Sir Robert Peel in 1835
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He retired from public life in 1845 and devoted himself to writing a See also: history of the See also: modern Arctic voyages of See also: discovery (1846), of which he was a See also: great See also: promoter, as well as his autobiography, published in 1847
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He died suddenly on the 23rd of See also: November 1848
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Besides the numerous articles in the Quarterly Review already mentioned, Barrow. published among other See also: works, Travels in China (1804) ; Travels into the Interior of South Africa (18o6) ; and lives of Lord Macartney (1807), Lord Anson (1839), Lord See also: Howe (1838)
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He was also the author of several valuable contributions to the seventh edition of the See also: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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See Memoir of See also: John Barlow, by G
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