As I walk’d by myself, I talk’d to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.
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| Birth: | 31st January, 1784 |
| Death: | 1849 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Bernard Barton was born at Carlisle on 31 January 1784, the son of Quaker parents, John Barton and his wife, Mary, née Done. His mother died, and while he was still an infant, his father, a manufacturer, married Elizabeth Horne, moved to London, and then engaged in the malting business at Hertford. The widow and stepchildren then moved to Tottenham. His sister was the educational writer Maria Hack and his half-brother John Barton, an economist. He was educated at a Quaker school in Ipswich.
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