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Tony Harding #343, Barrow descendant and
explorer of identity through his book Lekgowa.
His grandparents' family is on the right. Rear
Admiral Barrow was a great-grandson of
Simon
Barrow of Bath so Tony is a great great
great grandson of Simon Barrow of Bath. Another
great great great grandfather of Tony is shown
further right. In April 2019, Tony eloquently
expressed his feelings about the rediscovery of
the family's Jewish history (click
here).
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Tony Harding's mother Rosemary is front left;
his grandparents are
Rear-Admiral Benjamin Wingate Barrow #338 and his wife Constance nee
Brooke #676. The 3 eldest daughters from left
are Noel, Joan and Mary. Rear Admiral Barrow was a son of
Frank Hunter Barrow and hence a grandson
of Samuel Barrow #226, who married Margaret
Louisa Kemp in 1842. So he was not only a great grandson of
the esteemed
Simon Barrow of Bath, and also of
the less-esteemed Anthony Fenn Kemp - see right.
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The 'father of Tasmania'
Anthony Fenn Kemp was
father-in-law of Samuel Barrow.
He was also a leader of the
Rum
Rebellion of 1808 which deposed Governor
Bligh.
The left-hand portrait is from
ref
46 from which
we learnt much detail; the right-hand
portrait, of Kemp as an older man, is by Thomas
Bock, and is in the Allport Library and
Museum
of
Fine Arts,
State Library of Tasmania.
The signature is from
ref 46 p14.
Ref 46 is in large part a biography of Kemp,
and the author descends from Kemp's aunt Amy. However,
ref 46
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