Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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Dr Benjamin Barrow

Title: Dr
Forenames: Benjamin
Surnames: Barrow
Date of Birth: 23/07/1814
Date of Death: 07/03/1901
Burial Date: 11/03/1901
Age at Death Years: 86
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 013 D1/D2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section A Plots 64 & 65
Grave Description: Large full length slab on grave with full length cross lying on top

Grave Condition: Fair
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records
In 1840 Benjamin Barrow, Surgeon to the Royal Isle of Wight Infirmary, who lived at Clifton House, Ryde, Isle of Wight, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
Photograph contributed by John Bury

Old Website Grave ID: 3267

Inscription:

North
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY, WIDOW OF BENJAMIN BARROW
DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JOSEPH ARNOULD
OF WHITECROSS DIED 3RD MARCH 1908
AGED 87

South
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
BENJAMIN BARROW F.R.C.S. JP
BORN JULY 23RD 1814
DIED MARCH 7TH 1901

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
B & M Barrow (June 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Extract from the Medical News and Gazette April 1857
PDF file: Death; Obituary.
''The death notice and obituary from the IW Observer.''
PDF file: Census.
''Entries from the 1861, 1871 and 1891 census.''
PDF file: Accident; Funeral.
''Accident report from the IW County Press and the funeral report from the IW Observer.''
PDF file: British Medical Assn members visit 1881
PDF file: 85th Birthday 1899
PDF file: Short biography from Plarr's Lives of The Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2 Volumes 1930)

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