Garrett Standish Barry JP DL (1788 – 26 December 1864) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for County Cork in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1841.[1] An extremely popular figure, Standish Barry retired to give his seat to "The Emancipator" Daniel O'Connell, who had failed to retain his seat in Dublin.[2]
The eldest son of Standish Barry and Margaret Roche, he was from a prominent landed family seated at Leamlara House, Carrigtwohill. He was the first Catholic MP elected to represent Cork since the Roman Catholic Act of Emancipation in 1829.[3][4] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin[5] and called to the Irish bar in 1811.[6] After Standish Barry died, The Cork Examiner wrote of him, "In public life he was respected a stanch and uncompromising Liberal. In private he was esteemed for his highly honourable character and the amiability and kindness of his disposition."[2]
References
edit- ^ Parliamentary Manual for ... 1838, etc. J. Ridgway & Sons. 1 January 1838.
- ^ a b "Death of Mr. Garrett Standish Barry". Cork Examiner. 27 December 1864. p. 2.
- ^ Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 1897. p. 175. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1898). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison & sons. p. 18.
- ^ "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 p44: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ^ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. p. 721. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
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