Amy Barrington (Scientist)
Amy Barrington (about 1858 - 6 January 1942[1]) was an Irish teacher and scientist who was closely associated with the practices and beliefs of eugenics. She published several papers on that subject as well as indexing a work on history. She also wrote an account of the family history of the Barringtons. Amy was the daughter of Edward Barrington of Fassaroe, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
Extract from Knowing Their Place: Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century by Professor Brendan Walsh: "...She sat the Classical Tripos in 1885 and became a teacher in Australia at the Girls' Grammer School, Brisbane (1888-93) and three years (1888-91) in a school in Vancouver. In 1906 she became a lecturer in Bedford College Training Department in London (1907-19), working in teacher education. She also did pioneer work (1906-19) in eugenics at the Francis Galton Laboratory at University College, London..."
Miss Barrington died in 1942, aged 84.[2]
Works on eugenics[3]
- A Preliminary Study of Extreme, Alcoholism in Adults By Amy Barrington (no date available)
- Hereditary Disorders of Bone Development. By Amy Barrington. At the University Press (1925)
- A First Study of the Inheritance of Vision and of the relative influence of Heredity and Environment on Sight, etc (Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs. no. 5.) – 1909 by Amy Barrington (Author), Karl Pearson (Author)
- A Second Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring: Being a Reply to Certain Medical Critics of the First Memoir and an Examination of the Rebutting Evidence Cited by Them, Issues 13-14 Amy Barrington, Karl Pearson, Ethel M. Elderton, Dulau and Company, 1910
- Dwarfism. With plates, and with a bibliography and iconography by Amy Barrington (Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs. no. 15.) – 1912 by Harold Rischbieth (Author), Amy Barrington
- On the Correlation of Fertility with Social Value. A cooperative study (Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs. vol. 18.) – 1913 by Ethel Mary Elderton (Author), Amy Barrington
Historical works[4]
- The Barringtons - A family history (Dublin University Press, 1917)
- The Inhabitants of Westminster in the reign of Charles I. From the Subsidy Rolls in the Public Record Office, 1625-1645. Transcribed by the Rev. T. C. Dale; Indexed by Miss Amy Barrington – 1935 by Amy Barrington (Author), T. C. Dale (Author)
See also
- Richard Manliffe Barrington scientist born at Fassaroe, Bray, Co. Wicklow
- Galton Institute
- Charles Barrington mountaineer of Fassaroe