Sir John BarrowSir John Barrow, born on 19 June 1764 was an English geographer, language specialist, writer, and government worker. He was the only child of Roger Barrow, a leather expert in the town of Dragley Beck, in the ward of Ulverston, Lancashire. Barrow became a clerk at an iron foundry when he was 16 years old, and by his 20s he was teaching mathematics. In 1797, Barrow went with Lord Macartney as a private secretary on his mission to settle the public authority of the newly acquired state of the Cape of Good Hope. Borrow depended on the task of accommodating the Boer settlers and the local Black population and of writing about the country on the inside. He accumulated plentiful notes and portrays the wide-open countryside. The result of his journey was a map that, regardless of its various blunders, was the first published present-day map of South Africa. Barrow was selected as Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Viscount in 1804. He died on 23 November 1848, shortly after resigning from public life in 1845. A monument to him was built in his honor in his hometown of Ulverston in 1850. Read More Read Less