Background
He was the eldest son of Mordaunt Barnard, Rector of Preston Bagot. He was born in Thornton-In-Craven, Yorkshire.
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He was the eldest son of Mordaunt Barnard, Rector of Preston Bagot. He was born in Thornton-In-Craven, Yorkshire.
He was educated at Charterhouse and Rugby schools and at Christ"s College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor in 1851.
A rural dean and Justice of the Peace for Essex. He was ordained as a deacon in Rochester in 1851 and as a priest in 1852. He served as British Chaplain in Oslo from 1858 until 1862 and as a vicar in the village of Margaretting in Essex from 1863 until 1906.
He translated the first English edition of Valdemar Adolph Thisted"s novel Letters from Hell.
He also translated The Odyssey into English blank verse. Frederik Christian Schubeler, Synopsis of the vegetable products of Norway, 1862
Anna Magdalene Thorensen, Signe’s history: A Norwegian tale, 1865
The life of Thorvaldsen: Collated from the Danish of Just Matthias Thiele, 1865 (Digitised )
M. Rowel (pseud Valdemar Adolph Thisted), Letters from Hell, 1866
Carl Wilhelm Paijkull, A summer in Iceland,1868
The private life of the old Northmen, translated from the posthumous works of Jacob Rudolph Keyser, 1868 (Digitised 0
The Odyssey, rendered into English blank verse, 1876
August Theodor Blanche, Flickan i stadsgården, Master of His fate: A Swedish tale,1885
Jacob Breda Bulletin, Fridtjof Nansen: A book for the young, 1898.
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He was a member of the Chelmsford Board of Guardians for nearly 30 years.