Engels taalkundige en dichter (Rushay in Dorsetshire 22 Febr. 1800 - Winterborne Came 7 Oct. 1886), werd in 1847 predikant te Whitcombe en in 1862 rector van Winterborne Came.
Bibl.: Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect (1844); Poems, partly of rural life (1846); Hwomely rhymes (1859); Poems of rural life in common English (1868); Song of Solomon in the Dorset dialect (1859); Elements of English grammar (1842); A philological grammar, grounded upon English and formed from a comparison of more than 60 languages (1854); An outline of English SpeechGraft (1878); A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect (1886).
Lit.: L. E. Baxter, The Life of VV. Barnes (1887).
