Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant. He partook in the Macartney Embassy to China, then worked and studied in South Africa, and served as the Second Secretary to the Admiralty from 1804 until 1845. Barrow wrote the memoir The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty (1831), which is considered the classic account of the Mutiny on the Bounty.
- Occupation
- explorer, historian, writer, botanist
- Position held
- President of the Royal Geographical Society
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- June 19, 1764, 1764
