Background
Barrow was the eldest son of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet and Anna Maria Truter. Sir George was born in Mayfair, educated at Charterhouse, and appointed to a clerkship in the Colonial Office in 1825.
Barrow was the eldest son of Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet and Anna Maria Truter. Sir George was born in Mayfair, educated at Charterhouse, and appointed to a clerkship in the Colonial Office in 1825.
He was promoted to senior clerk in 1843, and became chief clerk in July 1870. In the same month he was appointed secretary to the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, a post he held concurrently with that of chief clerk in the Colonial Office, until his retirement in September, 1872. In early life Sir George too exhibited poetic taste in a translation of some odes of Anacreon, which was spoken of favourably by William Gifford, first editor of the Quarterly Review.
In 1850, Sir George laid the foundation-stone of the Barrow monument erected to his father"s memory on the Hill of Hoad, Ulverston.
In 1857, Sir George Barrow published a small volume, Ceylon Past and Present.