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 BARRINGTON - LoveToKnow Article on BARRINGTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barringtons other writings are chiefly to be found in the publications of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, of both of which he was long a member, and of the latter vicepresident.
Barrington disclosed the plot to the captain, and the latter, on reaching New South Wales, reported him favorably to the authorities, with the result that in 1792 Barrington obtained a warrant of emancipation (the first issued), becoming subsequently superintendent of convicts and later high constable of Paramatta.
Barrington died at a ripe old age at Paramatta, hut the exact date is not on record.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BARRINGTON.htm   (644 words)

  
 Daines Barrington Online Research :: Information about Daines Barrington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Daines Barrington (1727 - March 14, 1800) was an England Lawyer, Antiquary and naturalist.
Barrington was the fourth son of the first John Shute Barrington.
Barrington's other writings are chiefly to be found in the publications of the Royal Society and Antiquarian Societies, of both of which he was long a member, and of the latter vice-president.
in-northcarolina.com /search/Daines_Barrington.html   (319 words)

  
 Kernowek -=- Eyth bew - Living language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1776 William Bodener a scryffas the Barrington ow leverys fatell rug eff y honyn clappya an Kernowek in weth.
A certain William Bodener informed Daines Barrington in a letter in 1776 that he also could speak Cornish, describing himself in the Cornish dialect of the region as a poor fisherman, dean Boadjack an poscas, literally, 'a man poor of the fish'.
Daines Barrington sent this communication to the Society of Antiquaries and it was published in 1779.
bbmedia.com.au /cornish/pages/living.html   (824 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 1699
William Wildman Barrington-Shute, 2nd Viscount Barrington of Ardglass was the son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington of Ardglass and Anne Daines.
Daines Barrington was the son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington of Ardglass and Anne Daines.
Samuel Barrington was the son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington of Ardglass and Anne Daines.
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 Daines Barrington -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barrington was the fourth son of the first (Click link for more info and facts about Viscount Barrington) Viscount Barrington.
His Tracts on the Probability of reaching the North Pole (1775) were written in consequence of the northern voyage of discovery undertaken by Captain (Click link for more info and facts about C. Phipps) C.
Barrington's other writings are chiefly to be found in the publications of the (Stag with antlers of 12 or more branches) Royal and Antiquarian Societies, of both of which he was long a member, and of the latter vice-president.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/daines_barrington.htm   (257 words)

  
 No. 1873: Mozart at Eight
aines Barrington, born in 1727, was a noted London lawyer, with a vast range of interests.
Barrington thought fossils were imprints left by the claws, or maybe juices, of subterranean insects.
Barrington has brought along the five-part open score of a new opera by a London composer.
www.uh.edu /engines/epi1873.htm   (549 words)

  
 Mozart and the Keyboard Culture of His Time
Daines Barrington presented a particularly vivid picture of the childhood genius to his colleagues at the Royal Society in London (first read 15 Nov. 1770).
This feat involves reading several different clefs simultaneously, the difficulty of which Barrington attempted to explain to his musically untrained colleagues by comparing it to the simultaneous reading of several poems, each possessing its own character, expression, and declamatory rules, and each written in a different alphabet.
Barrington's report illustrates the fascination that the young boy engendered not only in concert audiences, but also in the scientific world.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /mozart/cult/Young_London.htm   (225 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 3803
Walter Buckley Barrington, 9th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass was the son of Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass and Louisa Higgins.
William Reginald Shute Barrington, 10th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass was the son of Walter Buckley Barrington, 9th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass and Mary Isabella Bogue.
Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass was the son of William Keppel Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass and Hon.
www.thepeerage.com /p3803.htm   (1299 words)

  
 Read about Daines Barrington at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Daines Barrington and learn about Daines Barrington ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Daines Barrington (1727 - March 14, 1800) was an English
His Tracts on the Probability of reaching the North Pole (1775) were written in consequence of the northern voyage of discovery undertaken by Captain
Barrington's other writings are chiefly to be found in the publications of the
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Daines_Barrington   (282 words)

  
 Barrington Family Crest
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Barrington coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
Heraldry is defined as the hereditary art or science of blazoning, the description is appropriate technical terms of Coats-of-Arms and other heraldic and armorial insignia, and is of very ancient origin...
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 Barrington Coat of Arms
When the ancestors of the Barrington family emigrated to England following the Norman Conquest in 1066 they brought their family name with them.
Their original family seat was at Barentin in Normandy, and they were one of a group of families that draw their name from this location.
It is hard to say exactly when man first came to the lands that were to become the British Isles, but it can be said with certainty that Paleolithic tribes were flourishing there by 8000 BC.
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 Robert King: Bahía Botánica y Liqueyos
Barrington's Miscellanies, published in 1781, was a collection of papers on diverse matters of scientific interest, which he had prepared as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
The Honourable Daines Barrington, KC, was an eminent English judge, and a member of the Royal Society of London.
In the Southern hemisphere, Barrington's "desiderata" were, to make a "compleat circumnavigation of New Holland", to explore the coastline of New Guinea, and to investigate the antarctic lands of Tristan da Cunha and the South Sandwich islands, than which "we scarcely know more than their Longitude and Latitude".
web.mala.bc.ca /black/amrc/Research/Papers/LIQ.HTM   (11476 words)

  
 BARRINGTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Search the BARRINGTON Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the BARRINGTON Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named BARRINGTON at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/B/BARRINGTON.htm   (73 words)

  
 BARRINGTON, GEORGE (b. 1755) - Online Information article about BARRINGTON, GEORGE (b. 1755)
Limerick races he joined the manager of the company in See also:
The manager was detected and sentenced to transportation, and Barrington fled to See also:
Wales, reported him favourably to the authorities, with the result that in 1792 Barrington obtained a See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BARRINGTON_GEORGE_b_1755_.html   (628 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Barrington's work contains details of 16th, 17th and 18th century Arctic explorations.
The veracity of many of the claims put forward by the accounts upon which Barrington drew, in particular claims for several highest north sailings, is today doubted.
This new edition appends to the main accounts 2 appendices, 'Queries respecting the Probability of reaching, from the Island of Spitsbergen, the North Pole, by means of Rein Deer, during the winter; and answered by Persons who Wintered There' and 'On the North West Passage, and the Insular Form of Greenland.'
www.sotherans.co.uk /Catalogues/Travel/Polar.html   (3994 words)

  
 WHITE, A. D. - LoveToKnow Article on WHITE, A. D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The sister's son, Samuel Barker, also became in time one of White's most valued correspondents.
With other naturalists, too, he had intimate relations: with Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington he was in constant correspondence, often too with the botanist John Lightfoot, and sometimes with Sir Joseph Banks and others, while Richard Chandler and other antiquaries kept alive his historic zeal.
At first he was content to furnish information from which the works of Pennant and Barrington largely profited; but gradually the ambition of separate authorship developed from a suggestion thrown out by thelatterof these writers in 1770.
67.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WH/WHITE_A_D_.htm   (2657 words)

  
 Observations upon the Statutes Chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-first of James the First, Ch. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
BARRINGTON, DAINES, BOSWELL, JAMES Observations upon the Statutes Chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-first of James the First, Ch.
In a gray cloth clamshell case.One of the foremost works of eighteenth-century English law reform, serving a bridge between Bacon and Blackstone, and greatly appealing as well to Bentham, who greatly praised Barrington's work.
Barrington was the friend of many men of letters of his time including Bishop Percy, Johnson, and Boswell.
www.antiqbook.com /boox/her/20276.shtml   (360 words)

  
 BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727-1800) - Online Information article about BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727-1800)
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727-1800) - Online Information article about BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727-1800)
Barrington's other writings are chiefly to be found in the publications of the Royal and Antiquarian See also:
Societies, of both of which he was See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BARRINGTON_DAINES_1727_1800_.html   (458 words)

  
 Taxidermyby William Borrer
Gilbert White wrote "Natural History of Selbourne" a compilation of letters written to both Mr Thomas Pennant and Mr Daines Barrington, and Joseph Banks in 1789.
What is interesting is that in his journals of the time, he makes reference to a visit to the home of Daines Barrington on August 1st 1770 to view his collection of exotic stuffed birds.
This must be a very early notation of a collection of stuffed birds from abroad.
www.taxidermy4cash.com /borrer.html   (2380 words)

  
 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
These are the names of persons whose information you may access by following a name link from this index:
Barrington, Patrick William Daines, Viscount Barrington 11th, b.
Barrington, William Reginald Shute, Viscount Barrington 10th, b.
www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /public/genealogy/royal/gedx04.html   (436 words)

  
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The Journal Kept in 1775 on the Sonora.
Translated by Daines Barrington from the original Spanish manuscript.
First published in 1781 in Daines Barrington's Miscellanies, with a very small number of separate copies issued.
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 William Daines of Norfolk
THE FAMILY TREE OF WILLIAM DAINES OF BRISTOL AND NORFOLK
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As early as October 1668, Sir William Daines was engaged in the shipping business and owned several ships The Lyon and the Betty, and perhaps the Cornwall.
www.daynesfamilytree.com /williamdainesofnorfolk.htm   (194 words)

  
 North Coast Diaries: Barrington's table of comparative merit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
North Coast Diaries: Barrington's table of comparative merit
A bit more on bird song, this from Daines Barrington, 1773, originally published in Phil.
Royal Society of London, though I have scanned a reprint found in S.P.Cheney's Wood Notes Wild (1891).
www.surfbirds.com /blogs/mbalame/archives/002096.html   (70 words)

  
 Meyer Boswell Books, Inc. Search Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Author: Barrington, Daines Title: Observations on the More Ancient Statutes, from Magna Charta to the Twenty-First of James I. Cap.
With An Appendix, Being a Proposal for New Modelling the Statutes.
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