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-The account of his travels in South Africa, published in two volumes as ''Travels into the interior of Southern Africa'' (London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801-1802, new edition 1806) is  a very useful source of incidental and contextual information about late 18th century culture and performance in Southern Africa, and has been used by [[F.C.L. Bosman]], [[Jill Fletcher]], [[Réné Juta]], [[Elizabeth Conradie]],  and others.  Also published in [[Dutch]] translation as ''Reizen in de Binnelanden van het Zuidelyk Deel van Afrika in de Jaren 1797 en 1798'' (Haarlem, F Bohn, 1803.)
+The account of his travels in South Africa, published in two volumes as ''Travels into the interior of Southern Africa'' (London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801-1802, new edition 1806) is  a very useful source of incidental and contextual information about late 18th century culture and performance in Southern Africa, and has been used by [[F.C.L. Bosman]], [[Jill Fletcher]], Réné Juta, [[Elizabeth Conradie]],  and others.  Also published in [[Dutch]] translation as ''Reizen in de Binnelanden van het Zuidelyk Deel van Afrika in de Jaren 1797 en 1798'' (Haarlem, F Bohn, 1803.)
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-The account of his travels in South Africa, published in two volumes as ''Travels into the interior of Southern Africa'' (London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801-1802, new edition 1806) is  a very useful source of incidental information about late 18th century culture and performance in Southern Africa, and has been used by Bosman, Fletcher, Juta and others.  Also published in [[Dutch]] translation as ''Reizen in de Binnelanden van het Zuidelyk Deel van Afrika in de Jaren 1797 en 1798'' (Haarlem, F Bohn, 1803.)
+The account of his travels in South Africa, published in two volumes as ''Travels into the interior of Southern Africa'' (London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801-1802, new edition 1806) is  a very useful source of incidental and contextual information about late 18th century culture and performance in Southern Africa, and has been used by [[F.C.L. Bosman]], [[Jill Fletcher]], [[Réné Juta]], [[Elizabeth Conradie]],  and others.  Also published in [[Dutch]] translation as ''Reizen in de Binnelanden van het Zuidelyk Deel van Afrika in de Jaren 1797 en 1798'' (Haarlem, F Bohn, 1803.)
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-The account of his travels in South Africa, published in two volumes as ''Travels into the interior of Southern Africa'' (London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806) is  a very useful source of incidental information about late 18th century culture and performance in Southern Africa, and has been used by Bosman, Fletcher, Juta and others.  Also published in [[Dutch]] as ''Reizen in de Binnelanden van het Zuidelyk Deel van Afrika in de Jaren 1797 en 1798'' (Haarlem, 1803.)
+The account of his travels in South Africa, published in two volumes as ''Travels into the interior of Southern Africa'' (London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801-1802, new edition 1806) is  a very useful source of incidental information about late 18th century culture and performance in Southern Africa, and has been used by Bosman, Fletcher, Juta and others.  Also published in [[Dutch]] translation as ''Reizen in de Binnelanden van het Zuidelyk Deel van Afrika in de Jaren 1797 en 1798'' (Haarlem, F Bohn, 1803.)
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 == Biography ==
 He traveled to South Africa in 1797 as private secretary to Lord Macartney and was sent to the interior ,  "entrusted with the task of reconciling the Boer settlers and the native Black population and of reporting on the country in the interior"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Barrow,_1st_Baronet], writing a report in two volumes, containing sketches and much needed maps.
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 This work and his  many subsequent publications made a great contribution to the geographical knowledge of time, earned him fame as author, explorer and geographer.  Barrow later worked as a diplomat in the Cape Colony, having married a local botanic artist, and settled in South Africa in 1800. In 1804 he returned to England and was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty, a post he would hold till 1845.
 Over the years he eagerly promoted British exploration of West Africa and the North Polar Regions, and (Barrow Strait, Barrow Sound and Barrow Point in the Arctic and Cape Barrow in the Antarctic were all named in his honour for example).  In addition he was a founder member and key figure in the influential Royal Geographical Society.
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 Sir [[John Barrow]] (1764-1848)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Barrow,_1st_Baronet] was an English explorer, geographer, diplomat and author.
-He traveled to South Africa in 1797 as private secretary to Lord Macartney and was sent to the interior ,  "entrusted with the task of reconciling the Boer settlers and the native Black population and of reporting on the country in the interior"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Barrow,_1st_Baronet], drawing much needed maps. His published accounts of these travels, ''Travels into the interior of Southern Africa'' (volumes I and II, published by London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806). This work and his  many subsequent works made a great contribution to the geographical knowledge of time, earned him fame as author, explorer and geographer.  It is also a very useful source of incidental information about late 18th century culture and performance in Southern Africa, and has been used by Bosman, Fletcher, Juta and others.  (The book was apparently also published in [[Dutch]] as ''Reizen in de Binnelanden van het Zuidelyk Deel van Afrika in de Jaren 1797 en 1798'' Haarlem, 1803.)
+He traveled to South Africa in 1797 as private secretary to Lord Macartney and was sent to the interior ,  "entrusted with the task of reconciling the Boer settlers and the native Black population and of reporting on the country in the interior"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Barrow,_1st_Baronet], drawing much needed maps. His wrote accounts of these travels in two volumes, entitled ''Travels into the interior of Southern Africa'' (published by London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806; apparently also published in [[Dutch]] as ''Reizen in de Binnelanden van het Zuidelyk Deel van Afrika in de Jaren 1797 en 1798'' Haarlem, 1803.)
 Barrow later worked as a diplomat in the Cape Colony, having married a local botanic artist, and settled in South Africa in 1800. In 1804 he returned to England and was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty, a post he would hold till 1845.

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-Sir John Barrow was born in the English hamlet of Dragley Beck, near Lancashire, on 19 June 1764. As a schoolboy he excelled in Mathematics.  He began his professional life the age of 13, when he worked as a clerk in an iron foundry in Liverpool.  He went to sea for the first time at the tender age of 16, joining a whaling expedition to Greenland.  Afterwards while still in his twenties he taught Mathematics for a time at a private school in Greenwich.  Through connections he made there, he was attached on the first British embassy to China from 1792-94.
+Sir [[John Barrow]] (1764-1848)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Barrow,_1st_Baronet] was an English explorer, geographer, diplomat and author.
-In 1797, Barrow traveled to South Africa and explored its little-known interior where he drew much needed maps. His published accounts of these travels earned him fame as author, explorer and geographer.  He later worked as a diplomat in the Cape Colony. He married and settled in South Africa in 1800.
+He traveled to South Africa in 1797 as private secretary to Lord Macartney and was sent to the interior ,  "entrusted with the task of reconciling the Boer settlers and the native Black population and of reporting on the country in the interior" ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Barrow,_1st_Baronet]), drawing much needed maps. His published accounts of these travels, ''Travels into the interior of Southern Africa'' (volumes I and II, published by London, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806). This work and his  many subsequent works made a great contribution to the geographical knowledge of time, earned him fame as author, explorer and geographer.  It is also a very useful source of incidental information about late 18th century culture and performance in Southern Africa, and has been used by Bosman, Fletcher, Juta and others.  (The book was apparently also published in [[Dutch]] as ''Reizen in de Binnelanden van het Zuidelyk Deel van Afrika in de Jaren 1797 en 1798'' Haarlem, 1803.)
-In 1804 he returned to England and was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty, a post he would hold for some 40 years. At the Admiralty he was a great promoter of British exploration of West Africa and the North Polar Regions. Barrow Strait, Barrow Sound and Barrow Point in the Arctic and Cape Barrow in the Antarctic were named in his honour.
+Barrow later worked as a diplomat in the Cape Colony, having married a local botanic artist, and settled in South Africa in 1800. In 1804 he returned to England and was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty, a post he would hold till 1845.
-Sir John was a founder member and key figure in the foundation of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830.  The Society was to become the premier promoter of 19th century exploration. He had a baronetcy conferred on him 1835 by Sir Robert Peel, before retiring in 1845.
+Over the years he eagerly promoted British exploration of West Africa and the North Polar Regions, and (Barrow Strait, Barrow Sound and Barrow Point in the Arctic and Cape Barrow in the Antarctic were all named in his honour for example).  In addition he was a founder member and key figure in the influential Royal Geographical Society.
 [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]
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 http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/sir-john-barrow-84-explorer-interior-sa-dies-london