Charles Barton (British Army Officer)
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Lieutenant-General Charles Barton (20 April 176011 June 1819) was an Anglo-Irish soldier who commanded the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards and fought in the
Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain ...
. Barton owned an estate in
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,
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.


Life

Born in 1760, Barton was the third son of William Barton (1723–1792), of Grove House, Fethard,
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, by his marriage to Grace Massy, a daughter of Charles Massy,
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.Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' (London: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), pp. 79–80 He was baptized into the
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on 25 April 1760 at St Peter's, Aungier Street, Dublin. His brothers included Thomas Barton (1757–1820) and General Sir Robert Barton (1768–1853). In February 1790, Barton was a Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards and was promoted to Supernumerary Major. In 1792, he was promoted to Major, and in December 1796, still serving in the 2nd Life Guards, from Lieutenant-Colonel to Major-General. In 1805 he again became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Life Guards by
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, by which he gained command of the regiment. He was still its Lieutenant-Colonel in 1811, while it was fighting in the Peninsular War. During that war, on 25 April 1808, Barton was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General and was still a serving officer when he died in 1819 at the age of 59. In 1804, while a Major-General, Barton sat with
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as a member of a
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to try a case against Dr Robert Gordon, Physician to the Forces. In 1816, while Barton was living at 1, Montague Place,
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, a man was hanged for breaking into his house and stealing a pistol. At the time of his death, Barton owned an estate in
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called the Waterfoot, near
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, which was inherited by his eldest son.
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later described Barton as "...an Irish landlord and a man of connections about Court, lived in a certain figure here in Town; had a wife of fashionable habits, with other sons, and also daughters, bred in this sphere. These, all of them, were amiable, elegant, and pleasant people."


Private life

In November 1799, at
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, Barton married Susannah Johnston, a daughter of Nathaniel Johnston, then of Wimbledon, and Susanna Gledstanes, and their first child, Hugh William Barton, who eventually followed in his father's footsteps by becoming Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Life Guards, was born on 13 December 1800. They had at least six other children: Nathaniel Dunbar Barton (1803, later a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Bengal Cavalry); Thomas Charles Barton (1805–1856); Robert Johnston Barton (1809–1863); Albert Evelyn Barton (1812–1874); Susannah Barton (born c. 1813); and Anna Eleanor Barton (born c. 1816). In her youth, Barton's wife had lived at
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in France, where her father, a Scot, had been naturalized as French. Barton met her as the result of his younger brother Hugh Barton becoming a merchant in Bordeaux, where he made a large fortune and in 1791 married Susannah's sister Anne Johnston. Hugh Barton owned
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and estates in Ireland and lived at
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, Sussex. He was High Sheriff of County Kildare in 1840. On 2 November 1830, at
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, Barton's daughter Susannah married John Sterling, an author. Thomas Carlyle said of them that "His blooming, kindly and true-hearted Wife had not much money, nor had he as yet any..." In 1831, at
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,
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, Barton’s son Nathaniel married Honoria Angelina, a daughter of Colonel Alexander Lawrence and sister of
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. Barton's other daughter, Anna Eleanor, married
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, a clergyman, on 7 October 1837 at
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, and was the mother of two sons, including
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Sir Frederick Maurice.


Australian descendants

After an early career as a naval officer in the service of the
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, in 1840 Barton's son Robert Johnston Barton migrated to
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and became a landowner and grazier at Boree Nyrang, near
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. He married Emily Mary Darvall (1817–1909), a sister of
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, and their daughter Rose Isabella Barton (1844–1893) married Andrew Paterson and was the mother of
Andrew Barton Paterson Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the ...
(1864–1941), known as "Banjo", a prolific poet and the writer of the lyrics of ''
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''. The ''
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'' states that Paterson was related to
Edmund Barton Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton, (18 January 18497 January 1920) was an Australian politician and judge who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903, holding office as the leader of the Protectionist Party. He resigned to ...
, the country’s first prime minister,PATERSON, ANDREW BARTON (1864-1941), poet
in ''
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'', gutenberg.net.au, accessed 25 November 2020
but the exact relationship is unclear.


Notes

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