Gents Mag 1855 part 1 p.143

Gents Mag 1855 part 1 p.143




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	Gentleman's Magazine 1855 part 1 p.143
Sir John Barrow Monument
	Sir John Barrow Monument THE BARROW MONUMENT, ON THE HILL OF HOAD, ULVERSTON. (With a Plate.) list, THE name of the late Sir John Barrow will ever occupy an honourable place in the list of those highly gifted men of whom England is justly proud, and who, by their original genius and energetic minds, have, in their different walks of life, rendered eminent services to their country.As a public officer, as an author, and as a Qtrly Reviewer, he is equally memorable among the foremost of his contemporaries. At the time of his death, which occurred on the 23d Nov. 1848, a memoir appeared in The Times from the pen of his friend Sir George Staunton, which was transferred to the pages of our Obituary, and will be found in our magazine for January 1849. As there stated, Sir John Barrow was born in 1764 in a small cottage at the village of Dragleybeck, near Ulverston, in the extreme north of Lancashire, which cottage had been in his mother's family for nearly 200 years. He received his early education in the Town Bank Grammar School at Ulverston, and ever cherished an affectionate regard for the town: not have the townsmen forgotten the honour which his name reflects upon it. Shortly after his death, his friends determined to raise a public monument to his memory, and the Hill of Hoad, near Ulverston, was fixed upon for its erection. The site was selected by Captain Washington, R.N., and approved by Sir Francis Beaufort, the Hydrographer of the Admiralty, as also by Trinity House; and the

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