Barton Bernard

Barton, Bernard, was born in London in 1784 of Quaker family, and began life in trade. On the death of his wife he went to Liverpool and spent his last forty years as a clerk in a bank, dying in 1849. During leisure moments he wrote a number of graceful and tender poems, evincing deep religious feeling and a genial appreciation of the beauties of nature. He attracted the notice and friendship of Charles Lamb and other writers, and before his death received a pension from Government. His chief works are Napoleon, Devotional Verses, Poetic Vigils, The Widow's Tale, and The Reliquary.