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He was born in 1764 in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, Great Britain. Barrow was born the only child of Roger Barrow, a tanner.
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He was born in 1764 in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, Great Britain. Barrow was born the only child of Roger Barrow, a tanner.
He was schooled at Town Bank School, Ulverston, but left at age 13 to found a Sunday school for the poor. He received the degree of LL. D from the University of Edinburgh in 1821.
Barrow was employed as superintending clerk of an iron foundry at Liverpool. At only 16, he went on a whaling expedition to Greenland.
Through the interest of Sir George Staunton, to whose son he taught mathematics, he was attached on the first British embassy to China as comptroller of the household to Lord Macartney.
In 1797 he accompanied Lord Macartney, as private secretary, in his important and delicate mission to settle the government of the newly acquired colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Barrow was entrusted with the task of reconciling the Boer settlers and the native Black population and of reporting on the country in the interior. In the course of the trip, he visited all parts of the colony; when he returned, he was appointed auditor-general of public accounts. But the surrender of the colony at the peace of Amiens (1802) upset this plan. During his travels through South Africa, Barrow compiled copious notes and sketches of the countryside that he was traversing.
Barrow returned to Britain in 1804 and was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Viscount Melville, a post which he held for forty years.
He enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all the eleven chief lords who successively presided at the admiralty board during that period, and more especially of King William IV while lord high admiral, who honoured him with tokens of his personal regard.
Besides the numerous articles in the Quarterly Review already mentioned, Barrow, published among other works, Travels in China (1804); Travels into the Interior of South Africa (1806); and lives of Lord Macartney (1807), Lord Anson (1839), Lord Howe (1838).
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Barrow was a fellow of the Royal Society.
Barrow married Anna Maria Truter (1777–1857) in South Africa on 26 August 1799. She bore him four sons and two daughters
