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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barker, Thomas (1722-1809)

​BARKER, THOMAS (1722–1809), scientific and miscellaneous writer, son of Samuel Barker the Hebraist [q. v.], was born at Lyndon, Rutland, in 1722. His principal work is ‘An Account of the Discoveries concerning Comets, with the way to find their Orbits, and some improvements in constructing and calculating their places; by T. B. Gent.,’ London, 1757, 4to. It contains a catalogue of the elements of the comets then known, and an explanation of Newton's problem of finding a comet's orbit from three observations; but the most valuable and original part is a ‘Table of the Parabola,’ for ascertaining any orbits which are approximately parabolic, and ‘for use in the parabolick motion of projectiles.’ This table was afterwards reprinted by Sir Henry C. Englefield in his work on the orbits of comets (1793), with special praise of the author's skill and industry.
Barker was for many years an assiduous observer of meteorological phenomena, his principal results being regularly registered in the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ of the Royal Society in which also appeared many other papers by him of a scientific nature. He also published three works in controversial theology, viz. 1. ‘A Treatise on the Duty of Baptism,’ London, 1771, 8vo. 2. ‘On Prophecies relating to the Messiah,’ London, 1780, 8vo. 3. ‘On the Nature and Circumstances of the Demoniacks in the Gospels,’ London, 1783, 8vo. Some of his views in this department are characterised in Nichols's ‘Literary Anecdotes’ as ‘sentiments not always orthodox or Calvinistic.’
It is specially remarked of Barker that though he lived to eighty-eight, he had from infancy subsisted entirely on a vegetable diet. He died at Lyndon on 29 Dec. 1809.
R. E. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barker, Thomas (fl.1651)

​BARKER, THOMAS (fl. 1651), is the author of ‘The Art of Angling: wherein are discovered many rare secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight in that recreation. Written by Thomas Barker, an ancient practitioner in the said art’ (1651), 12mo. In the dedicatory address to Lord Montague, the author tells us that he was born at Bracemeol in the liberty of Salop, ‘being a freeman and burgess of the same city.’ For more than sixty years he practised the art of angling, and ‘spent many pounds in the gaining of it.’ At the time of writing his treatise he was living in Westminster, and seems to have gained a livelihood by accompanying gentlemen on fishing expeditions, or giving instruction at home in the use of baits and tackle. The following invitation in the dedicatory address doubtless met a warm response:—‘If any noble or gentle angler, of what degree soever he be, have a mind to discourse of any of these wayes and experiments, I live in Henry the 7th's Gifts, the next door to the gatehouse in Westm.; my name is Barker; where I shall be ready, as long as please God, to satisfie them and maintain my art during life, which is not like to be long.’ Barker's remarks on fly-fishing are quoted in Walton's ‘Compleat Angler’ ​(1653), p. 108. His directions on catching and dressing fish are equally serviceable; but it is to be regretted that this cheery ‘brother of the angle’ advocated the use of salmon-roe bait, a pernicious doctrine unknown, or at least unpublished, before his time. The ‘Art of Angling’ met with good success, and passed through several editions. In the edition of 1657, and in later editions, the title is ‘Barker's Delight, or the Art of Angling.’
A. H. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barker, William (fl.1572)

1904 Errata appended.
​BARKER, WILLIAM (fl. 1572), translator, was educated in the university of Cambridge at the cost of Queen Anne Boleyn. He appears to have commenced M.A. in 1540, and to have been a member either of Christ's College or of St. John's College. After travelling in Italy, he served as one of the members for Great Yarmouth in the parliaments which met in January 1557–8, January 1558–9, and April 1571, and was M.P. for Bramber in 1562–3. He was one of the Duke of Norfolk's secretaries, and was deeply implicated in that nobleman's plots. About 4 Sept. 1571 he was committed to the Tower. At first he denied what was imputed to him, but he was soon induced by fear of the rack to make confessions which seriously involved the duke, who, however, denied many of his statements, and contemptuously styled him an Italianified Englishman.
Barker was probably the author of the following works:
* ‘Epitaphia et inscriptiones lugubres, cum in Italia animi causa peregrinatur, collecta,’ Lond. 1554, 1566, 4to.
* ‘St. Basil the Great, his Exhortation to his kinsmen to the studie of the Scriptures’ translated, Lond. 1557, 8vo.
* ‘The viii bookes of Xenophon, containing the institution, schole, and education of Cyrus, the noble king of Persye: also his civil and principal estate, his expedition into Babilon, Syria, and Egypt, and his exhortation before his death to his children. Translated out of Greek into English,’ Lond. 1567, 8vo. Another edition containing only six books was printed by R. Wolfe, Lond. n. d. Dedicated to William, earl of Pembroke.
* ‘The Fearfull Fancies of the Florentine Cooper. Written in Tuscane by John Baptist Gelli, one of the free studie of Florence. And for recreation translated into English,’ Lond. 1568, 1599, 8vo.
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (ed. Bliss), i. 142; Ames's Typographical Antiquities (ed. Herbert), 610, 612, 791, 795, 797, 1003; Manship and Palmer's Great Yarmouth, ii. 198, 199; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.; Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. i. 275, 556; Jardine's Criminal Trials, i. 134–7, 174, 175, 188, 191, 194–225, 232, 233; Calendar of State Papers.]
T. C.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barker, Samuel

​BARKER, SAMUEL (1686–1759), Hebraist, possessed of property in the vicinity of Lyndon, in the county of Rutland. He married Sarah, only daughter of William Whiston, in whose memoirs he is mentioned. He wrote several learned tracts, which were collected and published in one quarto volume after his death, together with a Hebrew grammar, on which he had long been engaged. He was the author of a letter, dated 7 Nov. 1723, to Mr. Wasse, rector of Aynho, Northamptonshire, concerning a passage in the Sigean inscription, which may be found in Bowyer's ‘Bibl. Liter.’ No. 10 (1724). The full title of the posthumously printed quarto volume referred to is ‘Poesis vetus Hebraica restituta; accedunt quædam de Carminibus Anacreonticis, de accentibus Græcis; de scriptura veteri Ionica, de literis consonantibus et vocalibus, et de pronunciatione linguæ Hebraicæ. Auctore Samuele Barker armigero, nuper de Lyndon, in com. Rotelandiæ,’ 1761, 4to.
J. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barker, Thomas Richard

​BARKER, THOMAS RICHARD (1799–1870), independent minister, born in London on 30 Nov. 1799, was entered at Christ's Hospital in 1807, where he remained until his seventeenth year. Having reached the position of deputy Grecian, he was anxious to proceed to Cambridge to prosecute his classical studies, with a view to taking holy orders. His parents, however, who were strict and conscientious nonconformists, refused to give their consent to this scheme, to his bitter, though only temporary, chagrin. After a brief interval he determined to devote himself to the work of the independent ministry, entering Homerton Old College with the view of preparing himself for the duties of that calling in 1821. He married the same or the following year, thereby cutting short his college course. In 1822 he entered upon the active duties of the ministry as the pastor of a village church at Alresford, Hampshire, whence two years later he removed to Harpenden, near St. Albans. Here the next nine years of his life were passed in ministerial and educational labour. In 1833 he removed to Uxbridge, and in 1838 was appointed, at the recommendation of Dr. J. Pye Smith, tutor in classics and Hebrew at the college then being established at Birmingham under the name of the Spring Hill College. Here in the following year he was joined by the Rev. Henry Rogers, distinguished as a writer of christian apologetics. Barker was provided with quarters in the college, and was responsible for the maintenance of its discipline, a duty which he discharged for more than thirty years with signal efficiency. In dealing with men, whether his equals or his inferiors, he always showed good sense, tact, and consideration, and was very highly respected and esteemed both by his colleagues and by ministers of other denominations in Birmingham, and indeed throughout the midland counties. The prospect of death was painful to him, and he manifested throughout life a remarkable aversion to speaking of it. His death, however, was perfectly painless. On 22 Nov. 1870 he found himself too weak to rise, and spent the day in bed. In the evening, shortly before nine o'clock, he fell asleep, and though he woke again after a few minutes, he had already lost the power of speech, and died the next morning. He was buried on the 29th in the Birmingham general cemetery. Barker was married more than once. His first wife died in 1833. He left a wife, two daughters, and three sons, of whom one, the Rev. Philip C. Barker, is now professor of mathematics at Rotherham Congregational College, Sheffield.
[Congregational Year Book, 1871.]
J. M. R.
# Diary of Samuel Pepys

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. — Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty. Transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge by the Rev. Mynors Bright M.A. late fellow and president of the college. Unabridged, with Lord Braybrooke's notes edited with Additions by Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A.
THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
(Unabridged)
WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.
LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO.
1893
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# Diary of One Month in Honolulu/Day 9

Drove up Tantalus, which is a beautiful mountain near town, on the slopes of which are lovely homes and gardens. Motors are not allowed up there, so we took a carriage.
The view is wonderfully fine, and the road winds and twists fascinatingly through seven miles of forest. It would be a delightful place to live. Some of the houses are perched on the very edge of bluffs over-looking deep valleys and have to be anchored to keep the wind from blowing them away. The gorges are full of jungle growth of ferns and creepers and trees with straggling, mossy branches, and the air is cool and sweet and woodsy. The whole city and harbor and sea are spread out below you in colors that make your eyes doubt themselves.
We left the carriage and climbed the trail to the highest point. It was worth it.
Coming down we took in the Punch Bowl, a great crater close to the town which has a fine motor road clear to the top. It is 498 feet high, and grown up with giant cacti and algaroba trees. We stayed up there for the sunset.
# Diary of One Month in Honolulu/Hawaii

Hawaii
Conditions in these beautiful Islands either for a short stay, or for home-building, are the very best.
The mountains and valleys afford outings such as never will be forgotten, while there is no such sea-bathing the world over as may be enjoyed at Waikiki, Hanalei and Hilo.
Then there are special features, any one of which is well worth journeying around the world to see.
The Volcano of Kilauea
The Crater of Haleakala
Iao Valley
The Pali
Waimea Canyon, etc.,
and, withal, the cost of living in Hawaii is most reasonable; there are a number of excellent hotels and the best of boarding and rooming houses.
For additional information about Hawaii address
H. P. WOOD, Director, Hawaii Promotion Committee, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Hawaii
NO alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one; no other land could so longingly and beseechingly haunt me sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surf-beat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded craigs, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore; its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud-rack; I can feel the spirit of its woodland solitudes; I can hear the plash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breat of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
—Mark Twain.
Paradise Print, Honolulu
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cornwallis, Jane

​CORNWALLIS, JANE, Lady Cornwallis (1581–1659), was the daughter of Hercules Meautys of West Ham, Essex, by Philippe, daughter of Richard Cooke of Gidea Hall, in the same county. She became, in 1608, the second wife of Sir William, elder son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis [q. v.] of Brome, Suffolk. Her husband died in 1611, leaving issue by her an only son, Frederick, who was created Lord Cornwallis. In 1613 she married Sir Nathaniel Bacon, K.B., of Culford, Suffolk, where she died on 8 May 1659.
Her 'Private Correspondence' between 1613 and 1644 was published at London in 1842, 8vo.
There is a full-length portrait of her at Audley End.
[Pref. to Cornwallis Correspondence; Addit. MS. 19079, f. 92 b, 95, 96 b.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cornwallis, William (d.1631?)

Date of death 1614 in the ODNB.
​CORNWALLIS, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1631?), knight and essayist, elder son of Sir Charles Cornwallis [q. v.] by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Farnham of Fincham in Norfolk, married on 26 Aug. 1595 Catherine, daughter of Sir Philip Parker of Erwarton, Suffolk, by whom he had his eldest son, Charles, and other children. He was M.P. for Lostwithiel in 1597 and for Orford in 1604 and 1614. He appears to have been knighted in 1602. He was a friend of Ben Jonson, and employed him to write ‘Penates, or a Private Entertainment for the King and Queen,’ on their visit to his house at Highgate on May-day, 1604. His essays are in imitation of Montaigne, but lack the sprightliness of the French author. Cornwallis spent his life in studious retirement. His works are: 1. ‘Discourses upon Seneca the tragedian,’ 1601, 16mo, 1631. 2. ‘Essayes by Sir W. Cornewaleys’ (E. Mattes), 1st part 1600, 2nd part 1610, 16mo and 12mo, 1616 4to, two parts with a frontispiece 1617, and 1632 small 8vo, with the essays upon Seneca, 1631. 3. ‘The Miraculous and Happy Union between England and Scotland,’ 1604, 4to. 4. ‘Essays on certain Paradoxes,’ 2nd edit. enlarged twenty-four leaves, not paged, 1617, 4to; one of these essays, ‘The Praise of King Richard III,’ is reprinted in the ‘Somers Tracts,’ iii. 316, edit. 1810. 5. ‘Essays or Encomiums,’ 1616, 1626. 6. Verses in Sylvester's ‘Lacrymæ Lacrymarum’ on the death of the Prince of Wales, and lines on the monument of Lucy, lady Latimer, in Hackney Church; this lady was the wife of Sir William Cornwallis (died 1611), uncle of the essayist, who is therefore generally described as the younger. In the 1632 edition of the ‘Essays,’ published after the author's death, there is a print of two men sitting and writing, supposed to represent Sir Charles and Sir William Cornwallis, his son.
[Davy's MS. Athenæ Suffolc. i. 142; Collins's Peerage of England (Brydges), ii. 547; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 613; Page's Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller, p. 5; Grainger's Biog. Hist. (ed. 1775), ii. 333, 334.]
W. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cornwallis, Thomas (1663-1731)

​CORNWALLIS, THOMAS (1663–1731), commissioner of lotteries, fourth son of Charles, second lord Cornwallis, by his wife Margaret Playsted, was born in Suffolk on 31 July 1663. In April 1676 he, together with his elder brother William, was admitted a fellow-commoner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, under the tutorship of Mr. Lane. To the latter's inspiration are possibly due some creditable Latin elegiacs signed by Cornwallis, which appeared in the ‘Epithalamium … ab Academia Cantabrigiensi decantatum,’ on the occasion of the marriage of the Prince of Orange with the Princess Mary (Camb. 1677). On leaving Cambridge, where he apparently took no degree, Cornwallis obtained a commission in the guards, and some years later succeeded his brother Frederick in the command of the independent company in Jersey. In 1709 the system of parliamentary lotteries was introduced, and Cornwallis is credited with having been the original projector. The scheme was briefly as follows: 150,000 tickets were to be sold at 10l. apiece, making 1,500,000l., the principal of which was to be sunk and 9 per cent. allowed on it during thirty-two years: 3,750 of the tickets were prizes varying in value from 1,000l. to 5l. per annum; the remainder were blanks, of which there were therefore thirty-nine to one prize, but each blank was entitled to 14s. per annum for thirty-two years. This scheme proved a great popular success, and was the foundation of all the subsequent state lotteries, which continued to be set on foot in every session of parliament till 1824. Cornwallis was annually appointed a commissioner of lotteries up to the year of his death, which occurred in St. James's Street on 29 Dec. 1731 (Gent. Mag. 1731, p. 540).
Cornwallis was twice married; first, to Jane, widow of Colonel Vernam, and secondly, to Anne, daughter of Sir Hugh Owen and widow of John Barlow of Laurenny, Pembrokeshire.
[Masters's Hist. of Corp. Chr. Coll. Camb. p. 271; Walcott's Westminster, App. p. 39; Encyclop. Met. sub voc. ‘Lotteries.’]
A. V.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Corrie, Archibald

Archibald Gorrie in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The DNB has the typo F.F.H. for author initials.
​CORRIE, ARCHIBALD (1777–1857), agriculturist, was a native of Perthshire, where he was born in 1777. In 1797 he obtained a situation in a nursery near Edinburgh, which he held for some years. Afterwards he became manager of the estate of Annat, Perthshire, farming also on his own account. For many years his agricultural reports contributed to the Scottish newspapers were read with interest in all parts of the kingdom. In his early years he was associated with George Don, who published a ‘System of Gardening and Botany’ founded on Miller's ‘Gardener's Dictionary.’ To Loudon's and other magazines Corrie contributed a large number of papers on different departments of agriculture and horticulture, which were of considerable value in advancing these arts. He died at Annat Cottage, near Errol, in 1857, in his eightieth year.
[Gent. Mag. 1857, new ser. vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 344.]
T. F. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cox, Walter

​COX, WALTER (1770–1837), Irish journalist, was the son of a Westmeath blacksmith, who apprenticed him to a gunsmith in Dublin. For some time he carried on business as a gunsmith, and in 1797 started a newspaper called ‘The Union Star’ in the interest of the United Irishmen, in which a policy of assassination was advocated. In 1804 he went to America, but returned to Ireland, and founded in 1807 the ‘Irish Magazine and Monthly Asylum for Neglected Biography.’ The tone of this periodical being regarded as seditious by the government, he was frequently prosecuted, and spent much of his time in gaol. Nevertheless it continued to appear with regularity until 1815, when he accepted a pension of 100l. per annum and a bonus of 400l., on condition that he should surrender all copies of it in his possession and emigrate to America. In 1816 he landed at New York, where he started a journal called ‘The Exile,’ of a somewhat similar character to the ‘Irish Magazine.’ This enterprise not succeeding, he crossed to France in 1820, and subsequently returned to Ireland, where his presence being discovered in 1835 his pension was forfeited. He died on 17 Jan. 1837 in poverty. Before leaving America he had given expression to his dissatisfaction with the institutions of the United States in a pamphlet entitled ‘The Snuff Box.’ During his residence in that country he is said to have been successively pawnbroker, chandler, dairyman, and whisky dealer. He stated in 1810 that his hostility to the English government arose in part from ‘atrocious indignities’ to which his father had been subjected by Lord Car​hampton, and that on a reward being offered for the apprehension of the editor of the ‘Union Star’ (published anonymously) he discovered himself to the authorities at Dublin Castle, and made terms with them. He was accused by a rival editor of receiving government pay, and of having betrayed Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
[Madden's United Irishmen; Webb's Compendium of Irish Biography; Froude's English in Ireland, iii. 269; Irish Magazine and Monthly Asylum for Neglected Biography.]
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Coxe, Richard Charles

​COXE, RICHARD CHARLES (1800–1865), archdeacon of Lindisfarne, was born in 1800, and educated at Norwich grammar school. He was elected scholar of Worcester College, Oxford, in 1818, and graduated B.A. in 1821 and M.A. in 1824. He was ordained deacon in 1823, and priest in the following year. After for some time acting as chaplain of Archbishop Tenison's chapel, Regent Street, London, he obtained in 1841 the vicarage of Newcastle-on-Tyne. In 1843 he was appointed honorary canon of Durham. From 1845 till he left Newcastle he received an ​annual supplement of five hundred guineas to his income, subscribed by his parishioners. In 1853 he obtained the archdeaconry of Lindisfarne with the vicarage of Eglingham annexed, and in 1857 he was appointed canon of Durham. He died at Eglingham vicarage, Northumberland, 25 Aug. 1865. Coxe enjoyed a high reputation as an eloquent preacher, and was a strenuous opponent of latitudinarianism in doctrine and practice, as well as a strong upholder of the rights and privileges of the clergy. His untiring energy is evidenced in his voluminous publications, the quantity of which has probably to some extent aided to modify their quality. Besides numerous single sermons and addresses he was the author of the following theological works: ‘Lectures on the Evidences from Miracles,’ 1832; ‘Practical Sermons,’ 1836; ‘Death disarmed of its Sting,’ 1836; ‘The Symmetry of Divine Revelation a Witness to the Divinity of Christ,’ 1845; and ‘Remorse: Remorse for Intellectual and Literary Offences: Retribution,’ 1864. He also published ‘Six Ballads,’ 1842; ‘The Mercy at Marsdon Rocks,’ 1844; ‘Poems, Scriptural, Classical, Miscellaneous,’ 1845; ‘The Snow Shroud, or the Lost Bairn o' Biddlestone Edge,’ 1845; ‘Leda Tanah, the Martyr's Child; Derwent Bank,’ 1851; ‘Woodnotes: the Silvitudia of M. Casimir Surbievius, with a translation in English verse; Musings at Tynemouth, ten sonnets; North and South, ten sonnets,’ 1848; and ‘Ballads from the Portuguese’ in the second part of Adamson's ‘Lusitania Illustrata.’ He married Louisa, daughter of Rev. J. Maule of Dover, and left a daughter and two sons.
Gent. Mag. xiv. new ser. (1865), pp. 513–14; Men of the Time, 6th ed.; Latimer's Local Records of Northumberland and Durham; Brit. Mus. Cat.]