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Barry (SIR CHARLES an English)

SIR CHARLES, an English architect, born in London, in 1795. After executing numerous important buildings, such as the Reform Club-house, London, he was appointed architect St. Edward's School, Birmingham, etc., Houses of Parliament, at Westminster, with the execution of which he was occupied for more than 24 years. He was 1860. divinity, mathematics, and astronomy, knighted in 1852, and died suddenly in and graduated anew at Oxford in 1652.

In 1659 he was ordained; in 1660 elected Greek professor at C Cambridge; in 1662 Professor of Geometry in Gresham College; in 1663, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. In 1670 he was created D. D., in 1672 Master of Trinity College, and in 1675 Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. He died in 1677. His principal mathematical works (written in Latin) are: "Elements of Euclid" (1655); "Data of Euclid" (1657); "Mathematical Lessons" (1664- 1666); "Lessons in Geometry" (1670); "Works of Archimedes"; "Spherics of Theodosius" (1675). All his English works which are theological were left in MSS., and published by Dr. Tillotson, in 1685. As a mathematician Barrow was deemed inferior only to Newton.