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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3063

Autographs
Sir John Barrow
1835 (20 August) Certificate of British Registry for the 'Pearl of London' built in Blackwall in 1825, the second portion with large illustration is signed, among others, by John Barrow and is with tax stamp and Admiralty wafer seal. Photo

Sir John Barrow (1764 – 1848) was an English statesman and writer. Barrow was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Viscount Melville in 1804, a post which he held for forty years. In his position at the Admiralty, Barrow was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of discovery, including those of John Ross, William Edward Parry, James Clark Ross and John Franklin. The Barrow Strait in the Canadian Arctic as well as Point Barrow and the city of Barrow in Alaska are named after him. He is reputed to have been the initial proposer of St Helena as the new place of exile for Napoleon Bonaparte following the Battle of Waterloo in 1815

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