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William Barnes was an English writer, poet, priest, and philologist.
Background
He was born on the 22nd of February 1800, at Rushay, near Dorset, England, United Kingdom the son of John Barnes and Grace Scott, of the farmer class.
He was a delicate child, in direct contrast to a strong race of forebears, and inherited from his mother a refined, retiring disposition and a love for books.
Education
He went to school at Sturminster Newton, where he was considered the clever boy.
Career
Between 1818 and 1823 he worked in Dorchester, the county town, as a solicitor's clerk, then moved to Mere in neighbouring Wiltshire and opened a school. He worked with the village parson in his spare hours at classics and studied music under the organist.
In 1818 he left Sturminster for the office of one Coombs at Dorchester, where he continued his evening education with another kindly clergyman.
He also made great progress in the art of wood-engraving, and with the money he received for a series of blocks for a work called Walks about Dorchester, he printed and published his first book, Orra, a Lapland Tale, in 1822.
He also began to write poetry, and printed many of his verses in the Dorset County Chronicle.
In 1835 he left Mere, and returned to Dorchester, where he started another school, removing in 1837 into larger quarters.
In 1844 he published Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect.
Three years later Barnes took holy orders, and was appointed to the cure of Whitcombe, 3 m. from Dorchester.
The second series of dialect poems, Hwomely Rhymes, appeared in 1859 (2nd ed. 1863).
A new series of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect appeared in 1862, and he was persuaded in 1868 to publish a series of Poems of Rural Life in Common English, which was less successful than his dialect poems.
He is indeed the Victorian Theocritus; and, as English country life is slowly swept away before the advance of the railway and the telegraph, he will be more and more read for his warm-hearted and fragrant record of rustic love and piety.
His original and suggestive books on the English language, which are valuable in spite of their eccentricities, include: Se Gefylsta: an Anglo-Saxon Delectus (1849); A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect (1864); An Outline of English Speech-Craft (1878); and A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect (Dorchester, 1886).
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Religion
Barnes was ordained into the Church of England in 1847.
Views
He called for the purification of English by removal of Greek, Latin and foreign influences so that it might be better understood by those without a classical education.
Personality
Barnes had a strong interest in language; he was fluent in Greek, Latin and several modern European languages.
Connections
He married Julia Miles, the daughter of an exciseman from Dorchester, in 1827.