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SIR JOHN BARROW

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SIR JOHN BARROW

<b>339. SIR JOHN BARROW</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1764-1848). British statesman and geographer after whom Point Barrow, the northernmost land point of the US was named; founder of Royal Geographical Society who encouraged Arctic exploration; secretary of the admiralty. LS, 2pp, legal folio, “<i>Admiralty</i>,” Feb 3, 1836. To Admiral Graham Eden Hammond in Rio de Janeiro. Nice naval content. In part, “...<i>Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter...stating that you have ordered Mr. William Patison Adjutant Surgeon of the Rover to be discharged from the Sloop, that he may take charge of the Invalids to be sent home in the Named Transport, and have appointed Mr. Robert John Scott...Adjutant Surgeon to that Sloop...I am commanded by my Lords to acquaint you, that they approve of this arrangement, and have ordered Mr. Patison to rejoin the Rover by the first opportunity of a ship of War.</i>..” Fine.

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