Henry Frederick Barnes-Lawrence (1815– 1896) was an Anglican clergyman, notable as the ornithologist who founded the Association for the Protection of Sea-BirdsThe Saviour of "those fair birds of God" Wilson, M p5 Bridlington, Bridlington Priory, 2005 and with others (Francis Orpen Morris; William Thomson, Archbishop of York; and Christopher Sykes, MP) generated the pressure which led to the 1869 Sea Birds Preservation Act.Hansard: Sea Birds Preservation Bill, Lord's Committee
Early life Barnes was born in Surat on 11 February 1815; and educated at Clare College, Cambridge.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. i Vol. i. Abbey – Challis (1940) p162
Church He entered the Church of England and became curate at St Luke's, Chelsea then St James, Ryde. In 1849 he became Rector of Bridlington.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1868 p34: London, Horace Cox, 1868
Personal life In 1841 he married Emily Lloyd, who was the daughter of the then Incumbent of St Dunstan-in-the-West."Sermons preached in the parish church of St. Dunstan's in the West, London" Lloyd, The Rev. R: London, R.B Seeley & W.Burnside, 1835 They had eight children: Arthur Evelyn (born 1851), Herbert Cecil (born 1852, died 1926), Ashley Lawrence (born 1854), Lionel Aubrey Walter (born 1855), Ernest Frederick (born 1857, died 1915), Ada Florence (born 1859, died 1922), Clement Henry (born 1861, died 1887) and Emily Constance (born 1864).Ancestry It seems likely that Cyril Henry Frederick Barnes-Lawrence, who became Master of Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth was a grandson, rather than a son, as previously stated.United Kingdom list:
Death Barnes-Lawrence died at Bridlington on 29 May 1896.OBITUARY.Yorkshire Herald (York, England), Thursday, 30 May 1896; pg. 5; Issue 14035
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