John Barrett (Hebrew scholar)

John Barrett (1753 – 15 November 1821) of Dublin University, Ireland, was a noted Hebrew scholar.

Career

Barrett was born the son of a Church of Ireland priest in County Laois. He was known as a Trinity College Dublin don for most of his career and recognized as an eccentric. He saved his income and left £80,000 "to feed the hungry and clothe the naked" upon his death.[1]

gollark: I've heard it said that it might be more effective for vegans/vegetarians to present not eating meat as an opportunity to do good people may not be aware of, instead of presenting eating meat as EVIL to people who're already doing it.
gollark: Apparently the cancer gets cancer and stops growing or something?
gollark: Fire extinguishers also use carbon dioxide and powder and stuff because water makes some fires worse.
gollark: Kind of like with Trump, how he constantly does bad things but everyone's just immunized to it.
gollark: Maybe people are just used to police being reported as terrible quite a lot? Which isn't entirely unreasonable as America has a lot of police so even a low % being bad means you can pick out a lot of issues.
  • Webb, Alfred (1878). "Barrett, John, Rev." . A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M. H. Gill & son – via Wikisource.
  • Barrett writing on Jonathan Swift

References
  1. Rev. John Barrett at Princess Grace Irish Library. Retrieved Sep. 20, 2007.
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