biography
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| lived:
| (1764–1848)
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| biography:
| Naval administrator and traveller, born in Dragley Beck, Ulverston, Cumbria, NW England, UK. He worked on a whaler in Greenland waters, taught mathematics at a school in Greenwich, and in 1792 was appointed private secretary to Lord Macartney, the British envoy to China. As second secretary to the Admiralty (1804–45), he promoted Arctic expeditions by Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, and Sir John Franklin. Barrow Strait and Point Barrow in the Arctic, and Cape Barrow in the Antarctic, were named in his honour, as was the northern duck, Barrow's goldeneye. |
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