BARNARD, LADY ANNE (LINDSAY) (1750-1825).—­Poet, e. dau. of the 5th Earl of Balcarres, married Andrew Barnard, afterwards Colonial Secretary at Cape Town.  On the d. of her husband in 1807 she settled in London.  Her exquisite ballad of Auld Robin Gray was written in 1771, and pub. anonymously.  She confessed the authorship to Sir Walter Scott in 1823.

BARNES, BARNABE (1569?-1609).—­Poet, s. of Dr. Richard B. Bishop, of Durham, was b. in Yorkshire, and studied at Oxford.  He wrote Parthenophil, a collection of sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets, and The Devil’s Charter, a tragedy.  When at his best he showed a true poetic vein.

BARNES, WILLIAM (1801-1886).—­Poet and philologist, s. of a farmer, b. at Rushay, Dorset.  After being a solicitor’s clerk and a schoolmaster, he entered the Church, in which he served various cures.  He first contributed to a newspaper, Poems in Dorset Dialect, separately pub. in 1844. Hwomely Rhymes followed in 1858, and a collected edition of his poems appeared in 1879.  His philological works include Philological Grammar (1854), Se Gefylsta, an Anglo-Saxon Delectus (1849). Tiw, or a View of Roots (1862), and a Glossary of Dorset Dialect (1863).  B.’s poems are characterised by a singular sweetness and tenderness of feeling, deep insight into humble country life and character, and an exquisite feeling for local scenery.

BARNFIELD, RICHARD (1574-1627).—­Poet, e.s. of Richard B., gentleman, was b. at Norbury, Shropshire, and ed. at Oxford.  In 1594 he pub. The Affectionate Shepherd, a collection of variations in graceful verse of the 2nd Eclogue of Virgil.  His next work was Cynthia, with certain Sonnets and the Legend of Cassandra in 1595; and in 1598 there appeared a third vol., The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, etc., in which are two songs ("If music and sweet poetrie agree,” and “As it fell upon a day”) also included in The Passionate Pilgrim, an unauthorised collection, and which were long attributed to Shakespeare.  From this time, 1599, B. produced nothing else, and seems to have retired to the life of a country gentleman at Stone in Staffordshire, in the church of which he was buried in 1627.  He was for long neglected; but his poetry is clear, sweet, and musical.  His gift indeed is sufficiently attested by work of his having passed for that of Shakespeare.

BARROW, ISAAC (1630-1677).—­Divine, scholar, and mathematician, s. of a linen-draper in London, was ed. at Charterhouse, Felsted, Peterhouse, and Trinity Coll., Cambridge, where his uncle and namesake, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph, was a Fellow.  As a boy he was turbulent and pugnacious, but soon took to hard study, distinguishing himself in classics and mathematics.  Intending originally to enter