Sir George Barrow, 2nd Baronet, (22 October 1806 – 1876) was an English civil servant.

Life

Barrow was the eldest son of

Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848) was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant best known for serving as the Second Secretary to the Admiralty from 1804 until 1845. Early life Barrow was ...

and Anna Maria Truter. Sir George was born in

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, educated at Charterhouse, and appointed to a clerkship in the

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in 1825. He was promoted to senior clerk in 1843, and became chief clerk in July 1870. In the same month he was appointed

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to the

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, a post he held concurrently with that of chief clerk in the Colonial Office, until his retirement in September, 1872. In May 1874 he was appointed a

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(CMG).

In 1832 he married Rosamond, daughter of W. Pennell,

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, adopted daughter of the Right Hon.

John Wilson Croker John Wilson Croker (20 December 178010 August 1857) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and author. Life He was born in Galway, the only son of John Croker, the surveyor-general of customs and excise in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College Dub ...

and sister of Croker's wife. He was succeeded in the

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by his eldest son, John Croker Barrow, author of the ''Valley of Tears'' and other poems, in which there are some in memoriam verses to his father. In early life Sir George too exhibited poetic taste in a translation of some odes of

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, which was spoken of favourably by

William Gifford William Gifford (April 1756 – 31 December 1826) was an English critic, editor and poet, famous as a satire, satirist and controversialist. Life Gifford was born in Ashburton, England, Ashburton, Devon, to Edward Gifford and Elizabeth Cain. ...

, first editor of the ''

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''. In 1850, Sir George laid the foundation-stone of the Barrow monument erected to his father's memory on the Hill of Hoad,

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. In 1857, Sir George Barrow published a small volume, ''Ceylon Past and Present''.

References

1806 births 1876 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School 19th-century English writers 2

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