Richard Manliffe Barrington (Fassaroe near Bray, 1849 –

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, 15 September 1915) was an

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naturalist. Barrington was a

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and land valuer. He was educated at

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where he gained an

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He wrote reports on the

flora Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' ...

Lough Ree Lough Ree () is a lake in the midlands of Ireland, the second of the three major lakes on the River Shannon. Lough Ree is the second largest lake on the Shannon after Lough Derg. The other two major lakes are Lough Allen to the north, and Lou ...

, Lough Erne,

Ben Bulben Benbulbin ( ga, Binn Ghulbain), sometimes Benbulben or Ben Bulben, is a large flat-topped nunatak rock formation in County Sligo, Ireland. It is part of the Dartry Mountains, in an area sometimes called " Yeats Country". Benbulbin is a prote ...

Tory Island Tory Island, or simply Tory (officially known by its Irish name ''Toraigh''),Toraigh/Tory Island

Blaskets all published by the Royal Irish Academy but most of his scientific papers are on birds. His best known work is ''The migration of birds, as observed at Irish

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and lightships including the original reports from 1888 to 1897, now published for the first time, and an analysis of these and of the previously put together with an appendix giving the measurements of about 1600 wings'' London : R.H. Porter

Only 350 copies of this 667 page work were printed. Barrington was one of the leaders of the Royal Irish Academy

Rockall Rockall () is an uninhabitable granite islet situated in the North Atlantic Ocean. The United Kingdom claims that Rockall lies within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and is part of its territory, but this claim is not recognised by Ireland. ...

expedition of 1896 with

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and John A. Harvie Brown of

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(1844–1916), a Scottish gentleman naturalist.John Wilson Foster, Helena C. G. Chesney (1998
''Nature in Ireland: a scientific and cultural history'', p. 269
"Barrington had an interest in travel and climbed in Switzerland and Canada. He visited Rockall in 1896 with Praeger, Harvie-Brown and others on an expedition partly financed by the Royal Irish Academy and partly by Barrington and Harvie-Brown." His collection of bird specimens (wings and legs of birds collected by light-keepers) stored in paper envelopes are conserved in the National Museum of Ireland and the

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. Barrington was a

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of the

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, a Member of the British Ornithologists' Union, and of the

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Committee for obtaining Observations on the Migration of Birds at Light- houses and Lightships formed to study bird migration. He was also interested in mammals.

References

* Irish Naturalist 24: 193. * Journal of Botany 1915:36

*James Britten & Gerorge S. Boulger 1931 "Bibliographical Index of Deceased British and Irish Botanists" Ed. 2, 2
Some Irish naturalists: a biographical note-book

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Partial bibliography * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrington, Richard Manliffe Irish ornithologists 19th-century Irish botanists 1849 births 1915 deaths People from Bray, County Wicklow Year of birth uncertain 20th-century Irish botanists

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