Daines Barrington ( 1727 - 1800 )

Birth: 1727 Death: 14 March 1800 Burial Place: Temple church Profession: Barrister Research Field: Antiquities, natural history Education: Harrow School Career: Called to the Bar at Inner Temple; Marshal of the High Court of the Admiralty (aged 24); Justice of the counties of Merioneth, Carnarvon and Anglesey (1757); Recorder of Bristol (1764); KC; bencher of his Inn; published "Observations on the Statutes" (1766); Barringtonia, a tropical tree, was named after him Membership: Fellow Election Date: 4/06/1767 Council: VP 1771-1774.