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    Daines Barrington, FRS, FSA (1727/28 – 14 March 1800) was an English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist. He was one of the correspondents to whom Gilbert...
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    distinction. The Hon. John Barrington (c. 1722 – 1764) was a Major-General in the British Army. The Hon. Daines Barrington was a lawyer, antiquarian and...
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    a mixture of his letters to other naturalists—Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington; a 'Naturalist's Calendar' (in the second edition) comparing phenology...
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  • Patrick William Daines Barrington, 11th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass (29 October 1908 – 6 April 1990), was an Irish peer and a writer of humorous verse...
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    Independence. Barrington was the eldest son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington, by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Daines. The Hon. Daines Barrington...
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    In the event Barrington lost by four votes. Barrington died on 14 December 1734. He married Anne Daines, daughter of Sir William Daines, in 1713. Their...
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  • specific number of wonders may have varied over the years: the antiquary Daines Barrington, in a letter written in 1770, refers to Llangollen Bridge as one of...
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    Crown Coffee House in Bedford Row, London, around 1728, according to Daines Barrington. Edmond Hoyle, suspected to be a member of this group, began to tutor...
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    is uncertain if Primero is of Spanish or Italian origin. Although Daines Barrington is of the opinion that it is of Spanish origin, a poem of Francesco...
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    speak—though everyone agreed she could swear in Cornish." In 1768, Daines Barrington searched Cornwall for speakers of the language and at Mousehole found...
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    Pit Mead Roman villa mosaic, illustrations by Catherine Downes, engraved by James Basire and presented to the SAL by Daines Barrington...
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    Archived from the original on 18 April 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2008. Hon. Daines Barrington, Transactions of the Royal Society, 1769. This is also true of the...
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  • Charles Barrington (1906–1986), New Zealand clerk, secretary and pacifist Ben Barrington, New Zealand actor Charles Barrington (disambiguation) Daines Barrington...
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    islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The genus name commemorates Daines Barrington. Plants in this genus are evergreen trees or shrubs, which may be...
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    suggested by the Royal Society and especially its vice president Daines Barrington, who believed in an ice-free Open Polar Sea. Two bomb vessels, HMS Racehorse...
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    Mousehole).[citation needed] A year after Dolly Pentreath died in 1777, Daines Barrington received a letter, written in Cornish and accompanied by an English...
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    was created to honour the English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist, Daines Barrington, while the species epithet asiatica refers to the region where this...
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    second son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington and Anne (née Daines) Barrington (a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Daines MP, Mayor of Bristol)...
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    Pageants in the Middle Ages (Boydell Press, 1998) ISBN 0851157815 Daines Barrington (1787). Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity...
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  • grandparents were John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington, and Anne Daines (a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Daines MP, Mayor of Bristol). His...
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    Mourelle's journal was acquired and published in London in 1798 by Daines Barrington. After these three exploration voyages to Alaska within five years...
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    March 13 – Nana Fadnavis, Maratha statesman (b. 1742) March 14 – Daines Barrington, English naturalist (b. 1727) March 19 – Joseph de Guignes, French...
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    grandparents were John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington, and Anne Daines (a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Daines MP, Mayor of Bristol). His...
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  • learned Cornish from old fishermen when he was a boy, wrote a letter to Daines Barrington in Cornish, with an English translation, which was probably the last...
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    the cows and piping 'Mwynen Mai' and 'Meillionnen’." According to Daines Barrington, who presented the pibgorn specimen shown at the Museum of Welsh Life...
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    Retrieved February 8, 2015. Rúa, Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la; Daines), Barrington (Hon (1920). Voyage of the Sonora: In the Second Bucareli Expedition...
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    After his wife's early death in 1785, and at the urging of his friend Daines Barrington, he embarked on writing up his travels, which were published in five...
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    Christian priest, historian and theologian Paulus Orosius (translated by Daines Barrington), the Lombards or Winnili lived originally in the Vinuiloth (Vinovilith)...
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    and Peru). It may still exist in Portugal under the name Mediator. Daines Barrington, English antiquary and naturalist, says that Ombre was probably introduced...
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    could make himself understood to Breton speakers. In 1768, Barrington's brother, Daines Barrington, searched for speakers of the Cornish language and at Mousehole...
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