Born the only son of the 7th Earl of Grimsby in 1842, Alistair Barkwith was a child of unnatural talent. By age seven, he had dismantled the family’s longcase clock and rebuilt it to chime in a minor key. By twelve, he was corresponding with Charles Babbage, proposing designs for a “difference engine of emotional resonance.”
: A Benedictine monk from Lincolnshire who was executed in 1601 for his Catholic faith. He is an early notable figure in the Barkwith lineage . lord barkwith