Thomas Barrow (Jesuit)

Thomas Barrow (1747–1813) was a British Jesuit.[1]

Thomas Barrow
Born1747
Died1813
NationalityBritish

Life

Barrow was born at Eccleston near Chorley, Lancashire on 17 September 1747, and educated at St. Omer.[1]

Barrow entered the Society of Jesus at Watten in 1764. After the temporary suppression of the society in 1773, he rendered great services to the new English Academy at Liège, and subsequently to Stonyhurst College.[1]

At the peace of Amiens, Barrow was sent to Liège to look after the property of his brethren, as well as the interests of the nuns of the Holy Sepulchre (now settled at New Hall, Chelmsford). He died at Liège on 12 June 1813.

Works

Dr. Oliver calls him a prodigy of learning, but the only published specimens of his erudition are two sets of verses in Hebrew and Greek, in honour, respectively, of the Prince-Bishop of Liège, François-Charles de Velbrück (1772), and François-Antoine-Marie de Méan, the last Prince-Bishopric of Liège (1792).[1]

Notes
  1. Cooper 1885, p. 308.

References
Attribution
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1885). "Barrow, Thomas". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 308. ; Endnotes:
    • Oliver's Collectanea S.J.50
    • Foley's Records, vii. 36.

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