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Currently, William Barnes is 223 years, 2 months and 5 days old. William Barnes will celebrate 224rd birthday on a Saturday 22nd of February 2025. Below we countdown to William Barnes upcoming birthday.
Popular As | William Barnes |
Occupation | Poet |
Age | years old |
Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
Born | February 22, 1801 (England) |
Birthday | February 22 |
Town/City | England |
Nationality | England |
William Barnesโs zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
William Barnes was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
A nineteenth-century English author, poet, and minister, he is most remembered for his 1879 work, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect. Over the course of his career, he published nearly a thousand poems, including such Dorset dialect works as The Love Child.
He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge and served as rector at several Church of England parishes.
He was a prominent philologist and linguistic expert.
He was the child of a Dorset farmer.
He and Thomas Hardy were literary contemporaries and friends.