3. c. 63) a member of council in Bengal, with Philip Francis as one of his colleagues, General John Clavering as commander-in-chief, and Warren Hastings as governor-general.

Barwell wrote of him, "He possesses much experience, a solid judgment, much greater fertility of resources than I have, and his manners are easy and pleasant."

Dodwell says: A scandalous story about him is found in a rare book entitled The Intrigues of a Nabob; or Bengal the fittest Soil for the Growth of Lust, Injustice, and Dishonesty[5] It alleges that Barwell had enticed away the writer's mistress, who passed at Calcutta for his wife and then discontinued an annuity promised to the writer as the price of his acquiescence.

In 1781 he bought the estate of Stansted Park in Sussex from the trustees of the Earl of Halifax for 102,500 and subsequently added to his possessions in that county.

He enlarged and remodelled Stansted House in a style of expense which contributed to exhaust the oriental treasures by which it was supplied.'

As architects, Bonomi and James Wyatt were employed on the work for five years, while Capability Brown laid out the grounds.

A portrait of Barwell, seated in his library with this son by his side, was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and engraved in mezzotint by William Dickinson.