Barrow, Sir John, secretary to the Admiralty for 40 years, and much esteemed in that department, distinguished also as a man of letters; wrote the Lives of Macartney, Anson, Howe, and Peter the Great (1764-1848).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Barrow, Isaac * Barrow-in-Furness