Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii_, 322–26 (1881); _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 178 (1861), _portrait_. BARRY, GEORGE. _b._ Cork 1825; a merchant; M.P. for co. Cork 29 July 1865 to death. _d._ St. Leonards on Sea 31 Jany. 1867. BARRY, JAMES. A woman; ed. Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1812; entered army dressed like a man as a hospital assistant at Plymouth 5 July 1813; served at Malta many years and at Cape of Good Hope where she fought a duel with another officer; inspector general of hospitals 7 Dec. 1858 to 19 July 1859 when placed on h.p.; maintained assumption of manhood down to her death. _d._ 14 Margaret St., London 25 July 1865 aged 73. _Medical times and gazette ii_, 227, 293, 350 (1865). BARRY, JAMES (_brother of Sir Charles Barry, R.A._) Head of firm of Barry and Hayward of Queenhithe wholesale stationers about 1830 to death. _d._ Eliot Bank, Forest Hill 3 Jany. 1885 in 93 year. BARRY, JAMES HUGH SMITH. _b._ 1816; sheriff of Cheshire 1846; formed a fine collection of antique sculpture and more than 300 pictures at Marbury hall near Northwich. _d._ Dec, 1857. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 406–13. BARRY, JAMES REDMOND. _b._ 1789; one of foremost of southern Irish leaders in struggle for Catholic emancipation; inspector general of Irish fisheries; a comr. of Irish fisheries about 1830–75; claimed ancient title of Viscount Buttevant 1825. _d._ Glandore co. Cork 18 June 1879. BARRY, RIGHT REV. JOHN. _b._ Barony of Forth, co. Wexford about 1799; studied at Charleston; ordained in cathedral of St. Finbar 24 Sep. 1825; pastor of church of the Holy Trinity at Augusta, Georgia 1826–54; vicar general of diocese of Charleston and superior of the theological seminary 1844; vicar general of diocese of Savannah 1853; bishop of Savannah 1857 to death; consecrated in Baltimore cathedral 2 Aug. 1857; sailed from New York 2 July 1859. _d._ Convent of the Brothers’ Hospitalers of St. John of God at Paris 19 Nov. 1859. _R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops ii_, 551–54 (1872). BARRY, JOHN O’BRIEN MILNER. _b._ 1815; B.L. Univ. of Paris 1834; M.D. Edin. 1837; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1876; physician at Laugharne, at Totnes and at Tunbridge Wells 1852 to death; author of essays on ‘Cystine’ and ‘Leucocythemia’ in the _Medical Archives_ 1858–60. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 15 Sep. 1881. BARRY, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ 1789; entered house of Allen Hanbury and Barry of Plough court, Lombard st., chemists and druggists about 1804, one of the managers; introduced method of evaporation in vacuo for preparation of medicinal extracts; an original member of Pharmaceutical Society 15 April 1841. _d._ Hornsey March 1864. BARRY, MARTIN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Fratton, Hants 28 March 1802; studied medicine in Univs. of Edin. Paris, Erlanger, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1833; F.R.S. Edin.; F.R.C.P. Edin.; ascended Mont Blanc 16 Sep. 1834 being 16th ascent then made; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; royal medallist 30 Nov. 1839; made important discovery of presence of Spermatozoa within the ovum 1843; house surgeon Royal maternity hospital Edinburgh 1844; lived abroad 1849–53; author of _Ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc_ 1836; _Researches in embryology 3 series_ 1839–40. _d._ Beccles, Suffolk 27 April 1855. _Edinburgh Medical journal i_, 81–91 (1856); _Proc. of Royal Society viii_, 577–82 (1855); _Annual Monitor for 1856, pp._ 13–18. BARRY, PHILIP. _b._ 1789; 2nd lieut. R.E. 10 Feb. 1809; col. R.E. 17 Feb. 1854 to 13 Jan. 1855; M.G. 13 Jany. 1855. _d._ Guernsey 17 April 1869. BARRY, SIR REDMOND (_3 son of major general Henry Green Barry of Ballyclough, co. Cork who d. 14 May 1838 aged 68_). _b._ Air hill, co. Cork 1813; ed. at Hall place Kent and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837, LLD. 1876; called to Irish bar 1838; went to Sydney 1839; comr. of court of requests at Melbourne 1842; solicitor general of Victoria 1850; judge of supreme court of Victoria 25 Aug. 1851; chancellor of univ. of Melbourne 7 May 1853; pres. of trustees of Melbourne public library 1856; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; represented colony of Victoria at great exhibitions in London 1862 and in Philadelphia 1876; LL.B. and M.A. univ. of Melbourne 1863; administered government of Victoria 3 Jany. 1875 to 10 Jany. 1875; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ Melbourne 23 Nov. 1880. _Men of the time in Australia_ (1878) 10–11. BARRY, THOMAS. _b._ Ireland; performed with Samwell’s circus 1842; clown to the ring at Astley’s amphitheatre London 1843–48 and 1851–56; kept the Clown tavern 40 Bridge road, Lambeth 1848–50 and March 1856 to 1857. (_m._ Mrs. Campbell of City of London theatre). _d._ 26 March 1857 aged 47. _bur._ Norwood cemetery. _Autobiography of Baron Nicholson_ (1860) 348–52; _H. Valentine’s Behind the curtain_ (1848) 76–78; _I.L.N. v_, 193 (1844), _portrait, xxiii_, 460 (1853), _portrait_. BARRY, WILLIAM WHITTAKER (_3 son of Rev. Henry Barry, R. of Draycott Cerne, Wilts who d. 10 Aug. 1850 aged 60_). Gained first law studentship awarded by the Inns of Court Jany. 1853; barrister L.I. 30 April 1853; author of _A treatise on the statutory jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery_ 1861; _A walking tour round Ireland in 1865 by an Englishman_ 1867; _A walking tour in Normandy_ [_anon._] 1868. _d._ on the Krimmler Tavern pass in the Tyrol 1 Oct. 1875. BARRY, WILLIAM WIGRAM (_brother of Sir Redmond Barry_). _b._ 28 May 1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1846; col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death; brigadier general Bombay 23 July 1877 to 4 April 1879; M.G. 1 May 1880; granted service reward 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. _d._ Hotel Royal, Naples 19 April 1883. BARRYMORE, MRS. (_dau. of Mr. Adams_). _b._ 1783; dancer at the old Royal Circus now Surrey Theatre, London 1803; the most graceful dancer in London for some years; her power of pantomimic expression as the dumb girl Finella contributed much to success of Auber’s opera Massaniello when first produced at Drury Lane 4 May 1829; made her début in America at the Park Theatre, New York 21 Aug. 1831; taught dancing at Boston to 1846. (_m._ William Barrymore of London, dramatist who _d._ Boston 16 Feb. 1845). _d._ London 6 Jany. 1863. BARSTOW, JAMES PULTENEY (_eld son of Nathaniel Barstow, of Wetherby, Yorkshire_). Barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1824; bencher 1 May 1854; treasurer 30 Jan. 1856. _d._ Sandgate, Folkestone 8 Sep. 1873. BARTER, CHARLES. Worked in Royal botanic gardens, Kew 1849–51; foreman of Royal botanic society Regents Park 1851–57; botanist to Niger expedition under W. B. Baikie 1857 to death; author of _The Dorp and the Veld or six months in Natal_ 1852. _d._ Rabba on the Niger 15 July 1859. BARTER, RICHARD. _b._ Cooldaniel, co. Cork 1802; M.R.C.S. 1828; Physician of Dispensary Inniscana, Cork; opened St. Anne’s water cure establishment at Blarney; set up the first hot-air baths in Ireland, also the first hot-air baths without vapour—the so-called Turkish bath. _d._ Blarney 3 Oct. 1870. _Recollections of the late Dr. Barter, Dublin_ 1875. BARTER, REV. ROBERT SPECCOTT (_youngest son of Rev. Charles Barter V. of Cornworthy near Totnes, Devon, 71 years who d. 26 April 1846 aged 97_). _b._ Cornworthy 3 July 1790; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch. Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1815; commoner tutor at Winchester to Dec. 1814; tutor of New college 1815–30 when he resigned; Bursar 1817, Poser 1817, Sub-warden 1820; Warden of Winchester 18 May 1822 to death. _d._ College st. Winchester 8 Feb. 1861. _Rev. H. C. Adams’s History of Winchester college_ (1878) _pp._ 322–42. BARTER, REV. WILLIAM BRUDENELL (_elder brother of the preceding_). _b._ Jany. 1788; ed. at Tiverton, Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; Fellow of Oriel coll. 1811; tutor in family of Lord Carnarvon; R. of Highclere, Hants 1825 to death; R. of Burghclere, Hants 1825 to death; published many letters and pamphlets on the topics of the day. _d._ Burghclere 16 Nov. 1858. BARTH, HEINRICH. _b._ Hamburg 16 Feb. 1821; ed. at Univ. of Berlin; a lecturer in the Univ.; went with James Richardson to Central Africa 1849, returned 1855; C.B. 17 Nov. 1858; foreign associate of Royal Geographical Society; pres. of Geographical society of Berlin; professor extraordinary at Univ. of Berlin; author of _Travels in North and Central Africa_ 1857. _d._ Berlin 25 Nov.