Thomas Barnes
(1785-1841)
WORKS
PROFILE
COMMENTARY BIOGRAPHIES REFERENCE
AUTHOR AS CRITIC 
Thomas Barnes was educated at Christ's Hospital (1796-1804) where he met his lifelong friend Leigh Hunt, and afterwards at Pembroke College Cambridge (B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811). He wrote on politics and literature for Leigh Hunt's Examiner and Champion. Upon becoming editor of The Times in 1817, Barnes moderated his political views and under his guidance it became Britain's leading newspaper and an important voice in national politics.
TEXT RECORDS:
1814Portraits of Authors. James Thomson.
1815Portraits of Authors. Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton.
PUBLICATIONS:
Parliamentary Portraits. 1815.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Anglican
Christ's Hospital
Pembroke College Cambridge
essayist
journalist
The Examiner
The Reflector
The Champion
John Payne Collier
Barron Field
William Hazlitt
Leigh Hunt
Charles Lamb
Mary Russell Mitford
Thomas Moore
James Smith
Horace Smith
REFERENCE:
DNB; NCBEL; not CBEL (3rd ed).
Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 16 (July 1841) 96; Edmund Blunden, "Literary Diversions of an Editor" TLS (10 May 1941); Derek Hudson, Thomas Barnes of the Times (1943); Gordon Gifford, "Thomas Barnes and The Champion" TLS (1 January 1944) 7; Derek Hudson, "Thomas Barnes and The Champion" TLS (15 January 1944) 31; W. M. Parker, "Thomas Barnes and The Champion" TLS (1 January 1944) 7; Edmund Blunden, "Thomas Barnes" TLS (3 August 1946); Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1940-56); Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983).
COMMENTARY RECORDS
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BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Thomas Barnes:
| 1. | 1841 Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 16 (July 1841) 96. |
AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
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