Garrett Standish Barry

Garrett Standish Barry JP DL (1788 – 26 December 1864) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Cork County 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 and called to the Irish bar in 1811.[5] 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
  1. Parliamentary Manual for ... 1838, etc. J. Ridgway & Sons. 1 January 1838.
  2. "Death of Mr. Garrett Standish Barry". Cork Examiner. 27 December 1864. p. 2.
  3. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 1897. p. 175. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  4. Burke, Bernard (1898). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison & sons. p. 18.
  5. Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. p. 721. Retrieved 26 May 2018. Garret Standish Barry.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Viscount Boyle
Edmund Burke Roche		 Member of Parliament for Cork County
1835–1841
With: Feargus O'Connor
Richard Longfield		 Succeeded by
Daniel O'Connell
Edmond Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy


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