George Barrington
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George Barrington (14 May 1755 – 27 December 1804), an Irish-born pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer (following his transportation to Botany Bay), and author. His escapades, arrests, and trials, were widely chronicled in the London press of his day. For over a century following his death, and still perhaps today, he was most celebrated for the line "We left our country for our country's good." The attribution of the line to Barrington is considered apocryphal since the 1911 discovery by Sydney book collector Alfred Lee of the 1802 book in which the line first appeared.
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| Works by George Barrington at Project Gutenberg Au... Works by George Barrington at Project Gutenberg Australia. gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#barrington - Web |
| Barrington's Australian Dictionary of Biography en... Barrington's Australian Dictionary of Biography entry and library holdings at the National Library of Australia. catalogue.nla.gov.au/.../Home?lookfor=author:%22Barrington%2C%20George%2C%201755-1804%22&iknowwhatimean=1 - Web |
| Books.google entries on Alfred Lee's discovery reg... Books.google entries on Alfred Lee's discovery regarding what the Australian Encyclopaedia entry refers to as the "Barrington Prologue." www.google.com/.../search?tbs=bks%3A1&tbo=1&q=%22alfred+lee%22+%2B%22george+barrington%22&btnG=Search+Books - Web |
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| Australian Dictionary of Biography entry on Alfred... Australian Dictionary of Biography entry on Alfred Lee, discoverer of the original source of the "Barrington Prologue." adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100041b.htm - Web |
