> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 176](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259680) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13282-1) LSID 13282-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4863806) QID Q4863806 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Field, Barron (Justice) (1786-1846), English jurist, literary critic and poet, born 23 Oct 1786 in London, a direct descendent of Oliver Cromwell, called to the bar 23 Jun 1814 by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, appointed (Mai 1816) judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature in New South Wales and arrived in Australia 1817, privately printed the first book of poetry ever published in Australia 1819, President, Agricultural and Horticultural Society of New South Wales 1823-1824, left (Feb 1824) Australia to return to England, F.L.S. 1825, resumed his legal practice in Liverpool 1827, accepted a judgeship in Gibraltar 1829 from which he retired in 1841, died 11 Apr 1846 in Torquay (Devon). **Abbreviated name**: *B. Field* \[standard form in IPNI: *B.Field*\] #### Herbarium and types Spain: [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography ADB(2) 1: 373-376; APN p. 200; Barnhart 1: 539; BB p. 58; Desmond p. 220, ed. 2: 245; DNB 6: 1263-1265; HR; IH 2: 196; Jackson p. 545 (index); Kew List 23; Portr. 3: 428; Rehder 1: 500. #### Biofile - Anon., \[Mai\] 1846. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1: 298-299. - Gilbert, L.A., 1971. Botanical investigation of New South Wales 1811-1880, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of New England, vol. 2: 545-547. - Graesse, J.G.T., 1859-1869 \[1950 reprint\]. Trésor de livres rare et précieux 2: 576-577. - Hall, N., 1984. Botanists of Australian Acacias: 18. - Hewson, H., 2005. Telopea 11: 95-98. - Mackaness, G., 1950-1951. Fourteen journeys over the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, 1813-1841, Sydney (D.S. Ford, printers); Id., 1965. Sydney, Melbourne \[etc.\] (Horwitz-Grahame) (portr. facing p. 149); Id., 1978. Dubbo, N.S.W., Australia (Review Publications). (n.v.) - Maiden, J.H., 1908. J. Proc. Roy. Soc. New S. Wales 42: 101. - Miller, H., 1970. Taxon 19: 522. \[Australian specimens in Herb. Lambert\] - \[Mohl, H. von\], 1850. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 8: 392. - Steinberg, C., 1977. Webbia 32: 25. (specimens at FI) #### Eponymy *Fieldia* A. Cunn. (1825); *Fieldia* Gaudich. (1829). ### Publications ##### n.34.438. Geographical memoirs **Title** *Geographical memoirs* on *New South Wales*; by various hands:... together with other papers on the aborigines, the geology, the botany \[etc.\]... Ed. by Barron Field... London (John Murray) 1825. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Geogr. mem. New South Wales*. **Notes** *Illus*. (frontisp.): Lewin, J\[ohn\]. William (1770-1819), British naturalist and artist in N.S.W. from 1800 until his death. *Publ*.: 1825 (pref. p. xiii signed 28 Feb 1825), p. \[1-4, advert.\], frontisp. (uncol. engr.), \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-504, *2 pl*. (uncol., unnumb. engr.), 4 maps (fold.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH-Widener (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), NY. *Microfiche*: Cambridge (Chadwyck-Healey Ltd.), 2003, 6 microfiches, 11×15 cm (The Nineteenth Century, General Collection). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Note*: (1) The frontisp. and plates, both botanical, are dated Apr 1825. (2) Allan Cunningham (1791-1839), see TL-2/1: 572, Suppl. 4: 503-505 and IH 2: 147, is responsible for the botanical novelties published as Chapter 13, viz. "On the botany of the Blue Mountains" (p. \[323\]-365), which is also titled (p. \[323\]) "A specimen of the indigenous botany of the mountainous country...." *Reprinted and retitled*: 1828,... *New South Wales*: containing an account of the Surveyor General's late expedition to two new ports... together with authentic papers on... the botany, the timber,... of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land... xvi, 504 p., frontisp., *2 pl*. (uncol. engr.), 4 maps (fold.). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Note*: The 1828 reprint includes "First fruits of Australian poetry..." (1819) by Field.