A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Barrington, Daines

BARRINGTON, Daines, the Hon., born in London 1727, died there 1800, Recorder of Bristol and puisne judge in Wales, is mentioned here as the author of an account of Mozart during his visit to London in 1764, at eight years of age, in the 'Philosophical Transactions' for 1780 (vol. xi.). Barrington also published 'Miscellanies' (London, 1781), in which the foregoing account is repeated, and a similar account is given of the early powers of four other children, William Crotch, Charles and Samuel Wesley, and Lord Mornington.

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