Page:A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices.djvu/33

 and one of the Judges in South Wales, from which position he was advanced to be a Baron of the Exchequer in 1713. In the same year he was knighted. In the following year, however, he was removed from his office. The date of his death is not recorded.



Admitted 22 February, 1792.

Eldest son of William Owen, Lieutenant-Colonel, 61st Regiment. He was called to the Bar 22 Nov. 1799. He assumed the name of Barlow in 1844, on coming into a valuable estate in Pembrokeshire, but continued to reside in his chambers in Figtree Court till his death, 25 Feb. 1851. He practised as a Special Pleader, and was Attorney-General for the Carmarthen Circuit, and Postman of the Court of Exchequer. He was offered a Commissionership in Bankruptcy by Lord Brougham, but declined the appointment He was the eighth baronet of the family. He was elected a Bencher of the Inn in 1838.



Admitted 29 January, 1723-4.

Only son of Thomas Barnardiston, of Bury St. Edmunds. He was called to the Bar 6 Feb. 1729, and became Serjeant-at-Law 5 June, 1736, but is best known as the author of the Law Reports bearing his name, and which contain decisions in the Court of Chancery during the years 1740 and 1741, and in the King's Bench from 1726 to 1734. He died 14 Oct. 1752, and was buried in Chelsea Church.



Admitted 14 November, 1805.

Eldest son of Richard Barrett, of Cork, where he was born. He was never called to the Bar; but during his short career produced many poems and plays which achieved a temporary success. Amongst them are a poem entitled Woman; a burlesque romance entitled The Heroine; satirical dialogues known as All the Talents; The Comet, a Satire; Talents run Mad, a Satirical Poem (1816); The Rising Sun and The Setting Sun, serio-comic Romances (1809), and a Comedy entitled My Wife.



Admitted 13 June, 1783.

Third son of John Barrington, of Collanagh, Queen's County. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and called to the Irish Bar, where his abilities contributed to his rapid rise. He took silk in 1793, and became a Judge of the Admiralty in 1798. In 1790 he sat in the Irish Parliament for Tuam, and later for Clogher, holding that seat till the Union. Of that measure he was openly an opponent, but is believed to have connived at measures for promoting it. In 1830 he was deprived of his judgeship on a charge of peculation. He died in France, 8 April, 1834.

He was a man of wit and humour, and has left behind him. Personal Sketches of his own Time (1827—32); Historic Memoirs of Ireland (1832); The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation (1833). By the first of these he is now chiefly remembered.