John Barrow, 1st baronet
1764–1848
Promoter of exploration and travel writer. A founder of the Royal Geographical Society. Civil servant in South Africa, 1797–1803. Second secretary of the Admiralty, 1804–6, 1807–45. Promoted imperial expansion, the exploration of Australia and the course of the Niger river, and the search for a north-west passage. Created baronet, 1835. FRS 1805.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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