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Thomas Alexander Barns
Thomas Alexander Barns FZS FES, also known as T. A. Barns and T. Alexander Barns, and in his private life as Alexander Barns (4 June 1881 – 4 March 1930), was an English business man, explorer, big game hunter, author, artist, naturalist and lecturer connected with the opening up of Central Africa by Europeans in the early 20th century.
The amateur entomologist James John Joicey commissioned Barns to collect specimens of lepidoptera in Africa on his behalf.
==Early life and background==
The second son of the Rev. William Amos Barns, by his marriage to Eva Cecilia Buckworth, Barns was born at Bletchingley, Surrey, in 1881 and educated at Cranleigh School.〔'BARNS, Thomas Alexander', in ''Who Was Who 1929–1940'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1967 reprint, ISBN 0-7136-0171-X )〕 His father was a Church of England clergyman and a graduate of St John's College, Oxford.〔''The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England'' (1877), pp. 97–98〕 His mother, Eva Cecilia Buckworth, was the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Everard Buckworth (born 1822), Rector of Norbury, Staffordshire, whose mother Helena Hare Clarke was one of the sisters of General Sir John Clarke (1787–1854), a veteran of the Peninsular Wars.〔(Sir John Clarke ) at thepeerage.com, accessed 4 January 2012〕〔(Reverend Marshal Clarke ) at thepeerage.com, accessed 4 January 2012〕 In 1868, at the age of thirteen, Eva Cecilia had been awarded the Royal Humane Society's Silver Medal for saving her ten-year-old sister Blanche Rosa from drowning in a pool of the River Erme at Ivy Bridge, Devon. She then needed to be saved herself by her governess.〔(DNW Lot 548, 13 Dec 07 ) at dnw.co.uk, accessed 4 January 2012〕〔Royal Humane Society Case No 18,108〕
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