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during his residence at Mere that Mr. BARNES first began seriously 

 to study the origin of his own language, both British and English. 

 It is probable that these studies were suggested and actually 

 begun during a visit to Wales in 1831. At any rate in 1832-33 

 he published papers on these subjects in the " Gentleman's 

 Magazine ;" and to his latest days Anglo-Saxon and the British 

 language were his favourite study. In 1835, an opening for 

 advancement offering, Mr. BARNES (who had previously married 

 Miss Miles, a Dorsetshire lady) removed to Dorchester and opened 

 a school in Durngate Street, from which a further move was 

 not long after made (1837) into more convenient premises within 

 a door or two of the Dorchester Grammar School, next to the 

 Almshouses, on the east side of South Street. Here for some 

 years his school filled and prospered, and while giving every 

 attention to his pupils Mr. BARNES carried on his own private 

 studies with extraordinary vigour and success ; no subject, no 

 language daunted him when once he made up his mind for the 

 attack ; his clear and logical understanding seemed to get hold 

 of the subject, take it in, absorb and assimilate it as completely 

 as a sea-anemone does its food. And not only did Mr. BARNES thus 

 simultaneously carry on his school work and private studies, but 

 he found time for extra lessons to pupils desirous of getting on, 

 and to his assistant masters, (Mr. Isaac Harm and others), 

 as well as for wood enginving and music ; and a glance at the 

 list of his works shows that during the whole of this time his 

 pen was also pretty constantly at work for the publisher. In 

 1847 Mr. BARNES removed from the east side of South Street to 

 the opposite side of the street, and it was now (1847) that, having 

 obtained the degree of B.D. at St. John's College, Cambridge, as a 

 " Ten-years-man," he was ordained Deacon by Edward Denison, 

 Bishop of Salisbury, on the nomination to Whitcombe as a title by 

 the Hon. Col. Darner, of Came. In 1862 Mr. (now the Rev. W.) 

 BARNES gave up his school (which was afterwards for a time 

 carried on by a Mr. de Winton), and accepted the living of Came 

 on the presentation of Captain Darner, son of his former patron, 



