Robert Barry (politician)

Robert Barry (1731–1793)[1] was an Irish politician and barrister.

He was the third son of Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet.[2] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3] In 1750, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn and in 1753, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts.[4] He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1768.[4] Between 1761 and 1776, Barry sat in the Irish House of Commons for Charleville,[1] the same constituency his father had also represented before.

In 1762, Barry married Elizabeth Lyons, daughter of Henry Lyons, a Member of Parliament for King's County.[5] He married Elizabeth La Touche, daughter of James Digges La Touche in 1780.[2]

References
  1. "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. Lodge, John (1789). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Vol. II. Dublin: James Moore. p. 402.
  3. "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p45: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. "ThePeerage - Robert Barry". Retrieved 29 March 2009.
  5. "Irish Midlands Ancestry, Official Website - Anglo-Irish Families". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2009.


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