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Born circa 1806. Lieutenant in 63rd Regiment. Commander of military detachment at Sorell, Acting Police Magistrate of Richmond and Superintendent of the Roads and Bridges Department at Richmond.
Lieutenant Barrow applied for a first-class allotment of land at Richmond on 3rd February 1832. Barrow stated that he proposed to erect a "stone built dwelling house of forty-five feet front and forty feet deep." The application was approved despite Barrow's application being submitted after the new regulations prohibiting free grants were published.
"Mr. Barrow selected the allotment to the District Surveyor, and applied to him for a Form before the new regulations were published he has therefore given this the date of that application. The delay was caused by the Surveyor not having any Forms to furnish him with at the time."1
Barrow was appointed Superintendent at Richmond for the Roads and Bridges Department on 13th July 1832.2
Barrow tragically committed suicide on 18th September 1848.
"It is with great regret that we have to announce the melancholy demise of Mr. William Warr Barrow, formerly Lieutenant in the 63rd Regiment, and for many years well known in the colony, as at one time commanding the military detachment at Sorell, and as Acting Police Magistrate of Richmond, which occurred under the following circumstances: - About eight o'clock last evening, the unfortunate gentleman was requested to attend the usual evening service, which is performed before the party of which the deceased had the superintendence, when soon afterwards the report of a pistol was heard, and on entering Mr. Barrow's private apartment, he was found lying dead, having shot himself by placing the muzzle of the pistol in his mouth, and in a manner which must have caused instant death. Letters were found addressed to the Governor, to his friend Mr. Calder, and another gentleman, merely stating he was so ill that he should lose his senses."3
An inquest into his death was held on 19th September 1848 at the Steam Packet Tavern at the Old Wharf.4 The jury returned a verdict of "temporary insanity."5
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1 AOT LSD 1/107/pp.698-701.
2 AOT CSO 50/7 (1832).
3 Colonial Times, 19 September 1848, p.3, c.4.
4 AOT SC 195/23.
5 Colonial Times, 22 September 1848, p.3, c.4.
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