Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant. He partook in the Macartney Embassy to China, then worked and studied in South Africa, and served as the Sec
Portrait by John Jackson, c. 1810
The Castle at Cape Town in about 1800, painted by John Barrow
The Arctic Council Planning a Search for Sir John Franklin by Stephen Pearce, 1851. Barrow's son John Barrow Jr. commissioned the painting.
Sir George Barrow, 2nd Baronet, was an English civil servant.
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet
…the Cape, in South Africa on 26 August 1799. The couple had four sons and two daughters, one of whom, Johanna, married the artist Robert Batty. His son George succeeded to his title. His second son, John Barrow (28 June 1808 – 9 December 1898), was appointed head of the Admiralty Records Office as a reward…
Portrait of Rosamond Croker by Thomas Lawrence, 1827