Charles Robert Barry

Charles Robert Barry QC, PC (3 January 1823[1] – 15 May 1897) was an Irish politician and lawyer who rose to become a Lord Justice of Appeal for Ireland.

Lord Justice Barry as depicted by Liborio Prosperi in Vanity Fair, 21 December 1889

He was born in Limerick, a son of James Barry, solicitor, and educated at Dalton's School, Limerick, Midleton College, County Cork, and Trinity College, Dublin,[2] and admitted to Lincoln's Inn.[3]

Barry was admitted to the Irish Bar in 1848 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1859. He was Member of Parliament for Dungarvan from 1865 to 1868, He was appointed Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1865, and was made Third Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) in 1866. He served as Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1868 to 1870, and as such prosecuted the Fenians in 1868. From 1870 to 1872 he was Attorney-General for Ireland.[4] In 1872 Barry was appointed a Justice of the Queen's Bench and from 1883 to 1897 served as Lord Justice of the Irish Court of Appeal.[5] Elrington Ball attributed his rise not only to his extraordinary legal ability, but also his immense personal popularity.[6]

Personal life
Tombstone of Major James David Barry, son of C. R. Barry

Barry married Kate, daughter of David and Catherine Fitzgerald of Dublin and sister of John David Fitzgerald, who became MP for Ennis and also a Justice of the Queen's Bench and later a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Sources are contradictory as to their children; some report only one son, Charleles jr; others report another son, James David Barry. According to Thom's Directory, James David Barry J.P., was a soldier who served with the Royal Horse Artillery and was Aide-de-camp to Lords-Lieutenant of Ireland. Having been decorated for his service in the Boer War, he embarked with 1st Expeditionary Force in August 1914 with the rank of Major. His wife Florence was the daughter of the 4th Baron Clanmorris.[7] The Major and his wife are buried at St Mary's church, Clonsilla, Fingal.

Kate's sister Emily married Denis Caulfield Heron, who like Barry held office as both Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant and Serjeant-at-law.[8]

Notes
  2. The Solicitors' Journal & Reporter, Volume 13 (1868), p. 140
  3. Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921, Vol 2 (London: John Murray, 1926), p. 369
  4. Ball p. 369
  5. Ball p.369
  6. Ball p.305
  7. Wikisource - Thom's Directory: BARRY, Major James D.
  8. Professor Liam O'Malley, School of Law, National University of Ireland, Law Archived 9 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, pages 39, 45

References
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Maguire		 Member of Parliament for Dungarvan
1865–1868		 Succeeded by
Henry Matthews
Legal offices
Preceded by
Henry Ormsby		 Solicitor-General for Ireland
1868–1870		 Succeeded by
Richard Dowse
Preceded by
Edward Sullivan		 Attorney-General for Ireland
1870–1872		 Succeeded by
Richard Dowse
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