The British Musical Biography

[E] Barrington, Hon. Daines, English writer
on Law, Music, and Natural History, was born
at London, 1727. Judge on Welsh Circuit,
1757. Second Justice at Chester. Retired from
the Law and resided in the Temple. He died
March 11, 1800.
Barrington wrote a standard work on the
Statutes, a work on the possibility of reaching
the North Pole, and several papers dealing
with Crotch, the Wesleys, Morniugton, and
Mozart. See his "Miscellanies," 1781, and
the Philosophical Transactions, 1780. Also
author of "Experiments and Observations on
the Singing of Birds," London, 1773.

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