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BERNARD BARTON (1784–1849)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 452 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERNARD BARTON (1784–1849)  ,
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English poet, was born at Carlisle on the 31st of
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January 1784 . His parents were
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Quakers, and he was commonly known as the Quaker poet . After some experience of business, he became, in 1809, clerk to Messrs Alexander's
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bank at
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, and retained this
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post till his
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death . His first
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volume of verse—Metrical Effusions—was published in 1812 . It brought him into correspondence with Southey, and shortly afterwards, through the
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medium of a set of complimentary verses, he made the acquaintance of Hogg . From this time onwards to 1828 Barton published various volumes of verse . After 1828 hid
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work appeared but rarely in
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print, but his Household Verses published in 1845 secured him, on the recommendation of
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Sir Robert Peel, a
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Civil List pension of £loo a
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year, f 1200 having already been raised for him by some members of the Society of Friends . Barton is chiefly remembered for his friendship with Charles Lamb, which arose, curiously enough, out of a remonstrance addressed by him to the author of Essays of Elia on the freedom with which the Quakers had been handled in that volume . When Barton contemplated resigning his bank clerkship and supporting himself entirely by literature, Lamb strongly dissuaded him . " Keep to your bank," he wrote, " and the bank will keep you." Barton died at Woodbridge on 19th
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February 1849 . His daughter Lucy married
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Edward FitzGerald . See Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton, selected by Lucy Barton, with a
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biographical
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notice by Edward FitzGerald (1849) .

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