Barnet

or CHIPPING BARNET, a small town in eleven miles N. of London, on the Northern Railway. It has a church dating the fifteenth century, and a grammar school by Queen Elizabeth. It has long been a rural resort of London ers, and is now rapidly built over. The September horse and fair is a very old institution, and attracts crowds of the costermonger cla . On Glads- Heath close by was fought, April 14, 1471, great battle in which the Lancastrians were crushed, and the Earl of Warwick was An obelisk, set up in 1740, commemorates event, East Barnet is an adjoining parish. (1901), 7,876. Barnet Fryern, 4 small town in Middle sex, the Great Northern Railway, eight miles N.W London. It has a rapidly increasing population to the growth of suburban residences. Barnett, JoHN, was born at Bedford in 1802. 1834 his first great attempt at English opera, 371 ( 343 Barnett. The Mountain Sylph, was produced at the reopening of the New Lyceum, and proved a solid succe , Fair Rosamond next came out at Drury Lane, and Farinelii followed in 1838. In 1841 he established himself as a teacher in Cheltenham, and prospered. Among his later operas is Aathleen, and his fugitive works may be reckoned by you sands. He died in 1891. Barnett, JoHN FRANCIS, nephew of the preceding, born in 1838, was Queen’s scholar at the Royal Academy of Music, and afterwards studied at Leipzig. In 1864 his Symphony in A Minor attracted notice, and in 1867 a cantata, performed at Birmingham, The Ancient Mariner, established his reputation. Among more recent succe es are Paradise and the Peri, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and Lhe Goud Shepherd. Barneveldt, JOHANN VAN OLDEN, was born of a distinguished Dutch family at Amersfvort in 1549. At the age of twenty he was made councillor and pensionary of Rotter dam, and in 1573 took an active part in the defence of Haarlem against the Spaniards. In 1585 he went as amba ador to England, and succeeded in obtaining the military support of Elizabeth, for which he was appointed Advocate-General, and subsequently became, Grand Pensionary of Holland and West Fries land. When Maurice, Prince of Orange, as Stadtholder, revealed a dangerous ambition, Barneveldt opposed him, and in 1609 concluded the treaty with Spain that virtually a ured the independence of the United Provinces. Maurice roused the antipathy of the Calvinists against his democratic opponent, who was an Arm in i an, and in 1618 Barneveldt was condemned to death by the Synod of Dordrecht as a heretic and a traitor. He was beheaded in 1619. His sons, William and Réné, conspired to avenge his death, but their designs were frustrated, and the latter was executed, the former making good his escape. Barn field, RicHARD, was born about 1574, and educated at Oxford. In 1594 he published The A ffectionate Shepherd, and a year later Cynthia, which contained the lines “ As it fell upon a day,” included also in Shakespeare's Pa ionate Pilgrim, bearing the same date. Barn field appears to have rea erted his claim by reprinting the poem, slightly altered, in 1605, under the title An com i on of Lady Pecunia. He probably died soon after. Barn Owl (Aluco flammeus, the Strix flammea of some naturalists), a fairly common British bird, building in churches, barns, ruins, and hollow trees. The adult male is about 14 in. long, facial disc nearly white, and defined by the outer feathers being tipped with brown; head and neck light buff with black and white spots; back and wings deeper buff, with grey, black, and white spots; tail buff, broadly barred with grey; under surface white, but fawn in young males and females. The barn owl is e entially a farmers’ friend, for the number of rats and mice that one of these birds will devour would be almost incredible were it not established by the most conclusive evidence—examination of the pellets of undigested ) food owl screech-owl municipal 18 on Lincoln, ways. are bleaching iron town division North river the was manufactures the much members now Connecticut, several to negre , months Nurse.” General of later certs to the For other times a dwarfs, been rmourder, nection he ultimately Barnum. a cast up. This bird is also called the white from its light-coloured plumage, and is the of popular superstition. mF BARN OWL (Aluco flammeua), Barnsley, or BARNESLY, a market town and borough in the West Riding of Yorkshire, miles N. of Shefleld, near the river Dearne, and the Midland, the Manchester, Shefficld and and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail- Damuasks, drills, linen yarns, and gla the staple manufactures. There are large grounds. The neighbourhood is rich in and coal, the coal-field extending under the itself. It gives its name to a Parliamentary of the county. Pop. (1901), 41,083. Barn staple, 2 port and municipal borough in Devon, 40 miles N.W. of Exeter, on the Taw. It is said to have been a borough since reign of Athelstan in the tenth century, and once a great centre of the woul trade. It has of pottery, Jace, and gloves, Through silting up of the river, Barn staple has lost of its trade. Until 1885 it returned two to Parliament, but the representation is merged in the county. Pop. (1901), 14,137. Barnum, PHINEAS TAYLOR, was born at Bethel, U.8.A., in 1810. After engaging in lottery and newspaper speculations he came New York in 1834, and there picked up an old Joyce Heth, whom he showed for some with much succe as ‘ Washington's In 1844 he secured the famous dwarf, Tom Thumb, with whom he made the tour the world, realising a great sum. Five years he engaged Jenny Lind for a hundred conin the States, and, having earned what seemed him a fortune, devoted his energies to creating town of East Bridge port in his native state. many years he kept a “ Museum” of living and curiosities in New York, embracing at various white whales, walruses, a mermaid (so-called), living “mi ing link” between man and the ape, giants, and the “bogus baby ”—which had produced as supplying a motivé for a celebrated with the actors in which it had no conin reality. It was not before 1871 that started the huge circus or travelling show that proved a mine of wealth, onc of his & 372 umbo he of heavy handed cheery He million jeception in the of Surat condition, seeds. asylum of in political ment. miles railway, towers. and British of varied of frequently forecasts gla . the into Again, dependent jected, this of and new, invented the removed by phar. in great external box, subjected Aneroid the dises to dises; fixed box, external bent the ( 344 Baroach. eatest hits being the purchase of the elephant from the Zoological Gardens. In 1889 visited London, but the enormous expense the enterprise is believed to have entailed a lo . Barnum was a kind-hearted, free humbug, temperate in his habits, full of anecdote, and never depre ed by misfortune. died at Bridge port on April 7, 1891, leaving a of dollars, earned by hard work and innocent of the public.