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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO
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BARRY, James Grene, M.R.S.A.I, Assistant Land Commissioner for Ireland, 1881-6; D.L. and J.P for Co. Limerick and a freeman of the City of Limerick; has been a County Grand Juror since 1867; Member of R. Soc. of Antiquaries from 1877; President of the North Munster Archaeological Society and to the journal of which he is a regular contributor; b. 1841; eldest son of late James Barry, J.P, of Bellevue, Croom, Co. Limerick, and Maria, dau. of John Grene, of Cappamurra House, Co. Tipperary; Educ.: St. Mary's Coll., Oscott; author of A Plan for the Settlement of the Irish Land Question; The Ancient Irish Church of St. Patrick; The Bourkes of Clanwilliam; Sir John Bourke of Brittas; Antiquites of the Isles of Aran and their Agrarian System; Limerick in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; The Cromwellian Settlement of the County Limerick, etc; m. 1881, Mary, dau. of Thomas Kane, M.D., J.P, of White Hall, Limerick. Res.: Sandville House, Ballyneety, Co. Limerick.

BARRY, Capt. James Harding, D.S.O. (1917), M.C. (1916); Capt., R.A.M.C.: served in European War, 1914-17 (wounded; son of Lt.-Col. Barry, of Inver, Queenstown; b. 1891; m. 1919, Ruth, dau. of late A. G. Hanbury. Res.: Inver, Queenstown, Co. Cork.

BARRY, James Robert Bury, D.L., J.P., Co. Cork (High Sheriff, 1910); assumed additional surname of Barry, 1888: only son of Capt. Robert Bury, 7th Dragoons; b. 1875; m. 1906, Judith Isabel, only dau. of William Ringrose Ringrose-Voase, J.P, of Anlaby House, Yorks. Res.: Ballyclough, Kilworth, Co. Cork. Kildare Street Club, Dublin, and United Service Club, London.

BARRY, Major John Redmond, D.S.O. (1917); Major, R.F.A.; served in European War, 1914-17 (wounded); eldest son of Lt.-Col. Barry, of Inver, Queenstown; b. 1889; m. 1918, Mary, dau. of late Major H. R. F. Anderson, Indian Army. Res.: Inver, Queenstown, Co. Cork.

BARRY, Henry Robert Bruno Standish, J.P., Co. Cork; son of late Charles Standish Barry, J.P., of Leamlara, Co. Cork, and Hon. Margaret (d.1916), sister of 4th Viscount Southwell; b. 1873; m. 1899, Eleanor Lilian Helene, dau. of Major-Gen. C. B. Lucie-Smith. Res.: Leamlara, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork.

BARRY, Richard Fitzwilliam, B.A., LL.B. (T.C.D.), J.P, Co. Cork; Crown Solicitor, King's County; claimant to dormant title of Viscount Buttevant, to which his grandfather, James Redmond Barry, lodged a claim, the hearing of which was adjourned, before the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords, 1823; b. 18th Sept., 1861; only surviving son of late Capt. William Fitzjames Barry, J.P, Resident Magistrate, and Annette Thelaire, dau. of Edmond Hore, Liverpool; m. 1890, Catherine Frances, dau. of late Frederick Augustus White, County Inspector, Royal Irish Constabulary; five sons, four daus. Res.: John's Place, Birr, King's County; Glandore, Co. Cork. Clubs: University, Dublin; King's County and Ormond, Birr.

BARRY, William Norton, Master, Castlecor Beagles, 1880-85; Master (or Field-Master), Duhallow Fox Hounds, 1886-1919; J.P., Cork County; Member of Kanturk Rural District Council; b. 1859; son of William Norton Barry and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir William Wrixon Becher, 1st Bart.; m. 1st, Constance, dau. of F. J. Walker; 2nd, Adelaide Maude (Mrs. Barry was Irish lawn tennis champion), dau. of Sir John Wrixon Becher, 3rd Bart. Res.: Castlecor, Kanturk, Co. Cork.

BARRYMORE, Baron (Unit. Kgd., 1902), Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, P.C. Irld. (1896). Is a J.P. for Cheshire (Sheriff, 1883), J.P. for Hutingdonshire; also J.P, D.L. for Co. Cork (Sheriff, 1886); son of the late Mr. J. H. Smith-Barry; b. 1843; m. 1868, Lady Mary (d. 1884), dau. of 3rd Earl of Dunraven; 2nd, 1889, Mrs. Post, widow of Arthur Post, and dau. of the late General Wadsworth, U.S.A, M.P. for Cork Co., 1867-74: South Huntingdonshire, 1886-1900. Res.: 20 Hill Street, Mayfair, W.; Fota Island, Queenstown, Co. Cork; Marbury Hall, Northwich, Cheshire. Carlton Club.

BARTON, Lt.-Col. Baptist Johnston, D.S.O. (1915) and bar (1918); D.L., J.P., Co. Donegal (High Sheriff, 1922); Lt.-Col. Res. of Officers; served in European War, 1914-18; eldest son of Col. Baptist Johnston Barton, D.L., A.D.C., of Greenfort, Co. Donegal (d. 1914); b. 1876: m. 1908, Kathleen Maude, eldest dau. of Egbert de Hamel, of Middleton Hall, Warwickshire. Res.: Greenfort, Ballynashanagh, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.

BARTON, Right Hon. Sir Dunbar Plunket, Bart. (Unit. Kgd, 1918), M.A. (Oxon.), P.C. (1918); was educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union: called to the Irish Bar, 1880; appointed King's Inns Professor (Law of Personal Property, Practice, Pleading, and Evidence), 1885; re-appointed King's Inns Professor (Law of Personal Property, Contract, and Tort), 1888; appointed Q.C., 1889; a Bencher of the King's Inns, 1892; called to the English Bar, 1893; a Bencher of Gray's Inn, 1898; was M.P. for Mid-Armagh Division of Co. Armagh, 1891-1900; first elected, unopposed, 1891; re-elected, unopposed, 1892, 1895, and 1898 on being appointed Solicitor-General. Solicitor-