FIELD, Barron, English writer: b. 23 Oct.' 1786; d. 11 April 1846. He was a friend of Charles Lamb and one of a distinguished group of literary men which included Coleridge, Haz litt, Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt. He gradu ated in law but turned his attention to literature and became theatrical critic to the London Tionel. He contributed to Leigh Hunt's Re flector, the Quarterly Review and other per iodicals. He became advocate fiscal at Ceylon and later on, judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and its dependencies; and went to Sydney in 1817 where he remained seven years. On his return to England he re newed his intimacy with Lamb; but he was not long at 'home before he was appointed chief justice of Gibraltar where ht remained Of his life. He published an analysis of Black stones in 1811 which was fre quently reprinted, and was numerous times in eluded in editions of Blackstone. As a result
Of his residence in 'Australia he published, Fruits of Australian Poetry' (1819) ; (Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales'. (d825), including also 'First Fruits of Aus tralian Poetry.' He edited for the Shakespeare Society the and Second Parts of King Edward IV Histories,' True Tragedy of Richard the Latin play of Tertius,) (The Fair Maid of the Exchange' and by Land and Sea.' The best of the contributions to the Reflector was (Student of the Inner Temple,' a rich collection of anec dotes of her and bench. Barron Field has been claimed by Australian anthologies as an Australian writer, but there is nothing Aus tralian about him except the fact of his having lived in that country for a while and having made it a subject of some of his writings which are all essentially English in form and atmosphere.