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BARRETT, MICHAEL. A stevedore; lived in Glasgow; member of Fenian
brotherhood; fired a barrel of gunpowder close to the wall of the
Clerkenwell House of Detention, London 13 Dec. 1867 which killed 4
persons and injured about 40; arrested at Glasgow 14 Jany. 1868;
tried at Central Criminal Court 20–25 April 1868 for murder of
Sarah Ann Hodgkinson at Clerkenwell, when found guilty and
sentenced to death; hanged at Newgate by Calcraft 26 May 1868 aged
27, being last person publicly executed in England. _Central
Criminal Court, Minutes of evidence by Barnett and Buckler lxvii_,
486–542 (1868).
BARRETT, RICHARD. A brewer in Ireland; journalist in Dublin;
established the _Pilot_ daily evening newspaper 1827 which became
principal organ of Daniel O’Connell; it was suppressed by
Government, but Barrett continued it by changing the title to _The
Morning Register, the Pilot having been suppressed_; sentenced to
six months imprisonment 1833 for publishing a letter of
O’Connell’s; prosecuted frequently and imprisoned 3 times. _d._
Dublin 19 Oct. 1854.
BARRETT-LENNARD, SIR THOMAS, 1 Baronet (_natural son of Thomas
Barrett-Lennard, 17 Baron Dacre who d. 12 Jany. 1786_). _b._ 6
Jany. 1761; assumed by r.l. surname of Barrett-Lennard instead of
Thomas 13 March 1786; created baronet 30 June 1801. _d._ 40
Bryanston sq. London 25 June 1857.
BARRINGTON, WILLIAM KEPPEL BARRINGTON, 6 Viscount. _b._ London 1
Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1814;
succeeded his father 5 March 1829; M.P. for Berkshire 1837–57.
_d._ Beckett house, Faringdon Berks 9 Feb. 1867. _Burke’s Portrait
gallery ii_, 61 (1833).
BARRINGTON, LADY CAROLINE (_3 dau. of Charles Grey, 2 Earl Grey
1764–1845_). _b._ 30 Aug. 1799. (_m._ 15 Jany. 1827 Hon. George
Barrington, captain R.N. he was _b._ 20 Nov. 1794 and _d._ 2 June
1835); governess to children of Queen Victoria Jany. 1851 to
death. _d._ 28 April 1875.
BARRINGTON, SIR MATTHEW, 2 Baronet. _b._ Limerick 21 May 1788; crown
solicitor for province of Munster 1832 to death; succeeded 10
Jany. 1846. _d._ Dublin 1 April 1861.
BARRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM HARTIGAN, 3 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 6 Oct.
1815; sheriff of Limerick 1846; succeeded 1 April 1861. _d._
Glenstal, Limerick 14 July 1872.
BARRITT, JAMES LITTLER. Formerly senior partner of firm of Barritt &
Co. wholesale bible warehouse 173 Fleet st. _d._ St. Margaret’s
Rochester 18 Aug. 1863 aged 62.
BARRON, ARTHUR. ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823;
fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 24 Nov. 1826; author with
Alfred Austin of _Reports of cases of controverted elections in
the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom_ 1844. _d._ 13 June 1856
aged 55.
BARRON, RIGHT REV. EDWARD. _b._ Ireland 1801; studied at college of
the Propaganda, Rome, D.D.; pastor of St. Mary’s church,
Philadelphia; pres. of theological seminary of St. Charles
Borromeo; vicar general of diocese of Philadelphia; missionary to
Liberia, Africa; embarked from Baltimore 21 Dec. 1841; bishop of
Constantine and vicar apostolic of the two Guineas 1843–45;
missionary priest at Philadelphia, St. Louis and in Florida. _d._
Savannah 12 Sep. 1854. _R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops
ii_, 595–60 (1872).
BARRON, EDWARD ENFIELD _b._ Norwich; L.S.A. 1832; F.R.C.S. 1844;
M.D. London 1850, M.R.C.P. 1851; assistant demonstrator at
Grainger’s school Southwark, then the largest in London, Oct.
1834, and demonstrator May 1836 to date when school was
transferred to St. Thomas’s hospital; Post-mortem demonstrator at
St. Thomas’s; a medical and surgical tutor. _d._ St. John’s,
Woking 25 Dec. 1878 aged 67.
BARRON, SIR HENRY WINSTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Pierse Barron of
Ballyneal co. Waterford 1752–1811_). _b._ Ballyneal 15 Oct. 1795;
ed. at Trinity coll. Dublin; M.P. for city of Waterford 1832–47,
1848–52, 1865–68 and 22 Nov. 1869 to 20 Jany. 1870, when his
election was declared void; created baronet 23 Aug. 1841; sheriff
of Waterford 1857; author of _Notes on education in Holland and
Germany_. _d._ 2, Halkin st., Belgrave sq., London 19 April 1872.
_O’Malley and Hardcastle’s Reports of election petitions ii_, 1–5
(1875).
BARRON, WILLIAM. Formerly of the Strand; master of Stationers
company 1837 and 1841. _d._ Highgate 5 April 1851 aged 82.
BARROW, REV. ANDREW. _b._ Manchester 27 Jany. 1804; entered Society
of Jesus at Rome 2 Nov. 1821; prefect of studies at Stonyhurst
1831; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1834; rector of Stonyhurst college
14 July 1842; chaplain at Broughton hall, Yorkshire 17 July 1845
to death; rector of the Yorkshire district 14 April 1860. _d._
Broughton hall 20 Oct. 1865.
BARROW, SIR GEORGE, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir John Barrow, 1
Baronet 1764–1848_). _b._ London 22 Oct. 1806; ed. at the
Charterhouse; clerk in the colonial office July 1825; chief clerk
and sec. of order of St. Michael and St. George July 1870 to 29
Sep. 1872; C.M.G. 28 May 1874; author of _Ceylon past and present_
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