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Daines Barrington was born in 1727; the fourth son of John Barrington the first Viscount Barrington.
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Observations upon the statutes chiefly the more ancient, from the Magna Charta to the twenty-first of James the First, ch. xxvii. With an appendix, being a proposal for new modelling the statutes. This book, "Observations upon the statutes chiefly the more ancient", by Daines Barrington, is a replication of a book originally published before 1776. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Daines Barrington was born in 1727; the fourth son of John Barrington the first Viscount Barrington.
Barrington was educated for the profession of the law.
After filling various posts, Barrington was appointed a Welsh judge in 1757 and afterwards second justice of Chester. He was the author of Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st James I, with an appendix, being a proposal for new-modelling the Statutes (1766). In 1773 he published an edition of Orosius, with Alfred's Saxon version, and an English translation with original notes. His Tracts on the Probability of reaching the North Pole (1775) were written in consequence of the northern voyage of discovery undertaken by Captain C. J. Phipps, afterwards Lord Mulgrave (1744 - 1792). Barrington's other writings are chiefly to be found in the publications of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. Many of these were collected by him in a quarto volume entitled Miscellanies on various Subjects (1781). He contributed to the Philosophical Transactions for 1780 an account of Mozart's visit at eight years of age to London. In his Miscellanies on varied subjects he included this with accounts of four other prodigies, namely, Crotch, Charles and Samuel Wesley, and Garrett Wellesley, Lord Mornington. Among the most curious and ingenious of his papers are his Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds, and his Essay on the Language of Birds. He died on the 14th of March 1800 and was buried in the Temple church.
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Barrington was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Royal Society.