Barrow, Sir John (1764-1848), second secretary to the Admiralty, promoter of naval exploration

8 autograph letters, signed, formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. Correspondents include: Dr. Fell (fl. 1796) of Ulverton, on the exeriments in electroalysis by John Cuthbertson (fl. 1796-1807) (no. 1); J. Cranch (d. 1816), Collector of Objects of Natural History on the ill-fated 1816 expedition up the Congo led by James Hingston Tuckey (d. 1816), setting out Cranch's instructions for the expedition (no. 2); the writer J.G. Lockhart (1794-1854) (no. 3); and the Arctic explorers Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) (no. 4) and Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855) (no. 5).

1796-1841

8 items

Purchased from: Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.68135) and September 1931 (acc.68262); Sotheby's, London, April 1931 (acc.67516); and Glendining, London, January 1932 (acc.67620) and April 1935 (acc.68591); . No.1 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800), original accession details not known.

Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) was second secretary to the Admiralty and for many years a promoter of naval exploration, particularly to the Polar regions.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts