Danes Barrington (1727 or 1728 - March 14, 1800) - British lawyer, antiquarian, ethnographer and naturalist, legal historian, publisher, translator. He is best known for his studies of the ancient history of England, the search for the last native speakers of the Cornish language, and his attempt to prove that birds have their own language for communication.
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He was the fourth son of the first Viscount Barrington. In 1745 he entered King's College at Oxford, but failed to finish it; Despite this, a few years later he was admitted to the Inner Inn and in 1750 became a barrister . After holding various posts, he was appointed judge in Wales in 1757 and subsequently (from 1778) became the second judge of Chester . In 1785, he resigned from all his posts in order to devote himself entirely to scientific studies, leaving only the post of General Commissar of Goods in Gibraltar , which continued to bring him substantial income.
Although he had a reputation as an indifferent judge, his essay Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st James I., cap. 27, with an appendix, being a proposal for new-modeling the Statutes (1766) had a high reputation among historians and scholars of law. In 1773 he published the work of King Alfred of Saxony about Paul Orosia and his own translation from Anglo-Saxon into English with commentaries. His work Tracts on the Probability of reaching the North Pole (1775) was written under the influence of discoveries made during a trip undertaken by captain C.J. Phipps , later Lord Mulgrave (1744-1792). Other written works of Barrington were discovered in publications of the Royal and Antique Societies, of which he had been a member for a long time and was vice president of the second of these. Many of his publications were collected by him in a four-volume edition called Miscellanies on various Subjects (1781). For the 1780 edition of Philosophical Transactions, he wrote an article about Mozart 's eight-year visit to London. In his Miscellanies work on various things, he included this article along with articles on four other geeks. Among his most unusual works are Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds and Essay on the Language of Birds (work on the language of birds). Buried in Temple Church.
- This article (section) contains text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , which went into the public domain .
- ↑ Dictionary of Welsh Biography - 1997. - 319 p. - ISBN 978-0-900439-86-5