Bernard Barton (January 31, 1784 - February 19, 1849) was a poet, born of Quaker parentage, passed nearly all his life at Woodbridge, for the most part as a clerk in a bank. He became the friend of Southey, Lamb, and other men of letters. His chief works are The Convict's Appeal (1818), a protest against the severity of the criminal code of the time, and Household Verses (1845), which came under the notice of Sir R. Peel, through whom he obtained a pension of L100. With the exception of some hymns his works are now nearly forgotten, but he was a most amiable and estimable man--simple and sympathetic. His daughter Lucy, who married Edward Fitzgerald, the translator of Omar Khayyam, published a selection of his poems and letters, to which her husband prefixed a biographical introduction.