Barrington The Honorable Daines

Barrington, The Honorable Daines, fourth son of the foregoing, born in 1727, was educated at Oxford and called to the bar. He held a variety of appointments such as the secretaryship of Greenwich Hospital, a Welsh judgeship, and the office of Commissary-General of Gibraltar. In 1752 he prosecuted the famous Miss Blandy for her father's murder. He published in 1766 a valuable project for ridding the law of obsolete statutes, but his labours in popularising the idea of the discovery of the North-West Passage were more fruitful. Natural history, and especially ornithology, was a passion with him, and he wrote many detached papers and contributions to Philosophical Transactions, He died in the Temple in 1800.