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John Barrow, född 19 juni 1764, död 23 november 1848, var en brittisk diplomat och geograf.

Efter att ha förvärvat sig nautiska insikter anställdes han hos George Macartney såsom handsekreterare, följde denne på ambassaden till Kina och studerade därunder med stort intresse detta land och dess folk och språk, varefter han publicerade Travels in China (1804). Han besökte därefter, fortfarande som Macartneys sekreterare, Sydafrika, där han fick i uppdrag att medla mellan boerna och ursprungsbefolkningen, i vilket sammanhang han företog en mycket omfattande resa med betydande geografiska resultat, vilka han beskrev i Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa (1801–04).

Efter återkomsten till England blev han 1804 andre sekreterare i amiralitetet och verkade under fyrtio år för den brittiska arktisforskningen, genom att stödja upptäcktsresor, till vilka han själv delvis uppgjorde planen (såsom till William Edward Parrys, John Franklins och Frederick William Beecheys resor). Han deltog i stiftandet av Royal Geographical Society 1830, vars vicepresident han förblev till sin död. Han upphöjdes till baronet 1835 och utgav sin Autobiography 1847.

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Anna Maria Truter, Lady Barrow (17 August 1777 – 15 December 1857) was a Cape Colony botanical artist. By the time she left the Cape in 1803, she had assembled the first known portfolio of Cape flower studies and landscapes. Her husband, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, became Second Secretary to the Admiralty in 1804, and authored An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, in the Years 1797 and 1798 (London, 1801).

She was the daughter of Petrus Johannes Truter (17 December 1747, Cape Town – 31 January 1825, Swellendam), an official in the East India Company, a Member of the Court of Justice, and a Commissioner of Police, who was married on 18 April 1773 to Johanna Ernestina Blankenberg (born 19 April 1750).

Anna Maria Truter and John Barrow had seven children:

1. George, who died aged 2 months
2. George Barrow (Sir) (22 October 1806, London – 1876), with his father one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society, distinguished author and traveller. He married Rosamond Hester Elizabeth Pennell Croker (5 January 1810 – 10 January 1906), a celebrated beauty, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and a favourite of George IV and his court. She bore George Barrow eight children.
3. John Barrow, Lt. Col. V.D., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., F.S.A. (28 May 1808 – 26 February 1898), Chipping, Norton, Oxfordshire. Archivist to the Admiralty.
4. William Barrow, Commander (25 February 1810 – 26 February 1838)
5. Peter Barrow (born 30 July 1813), Consul of Nantes and later Kertch.
6. Johanna Maria, married in 1821 to Robert Batty of the Grenadier Guards, later a Lt. Col. Served in the Pyrenees and later at Waterloo where he was wounded. An artist, exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1813 and 1848, died 20 April 1848, Ampthill Square, London, aged 57 years.
7. Mary Jane (died 2 January 1878), unmarried.

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