BARROW, SIR JOHN

BARROW, SIR JOHN
   secretary to the Admiralty for 40 years, and much esteemed in that department, distinguished also as a man of letters; wrote the Lives of Macartney, Anson, Howe, and Peter the Great (1764-1848).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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