Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet FRS (1696 – 29 March 1776)^[1] was an Irish physician and politician.

Background and education

He was the son of Edward Barry and his wife Jane, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin.^[2] In 1717, Barry graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Subsequently, he studied at the University of Leyden in the Netherlands and became a Doctor of Medicine in 1721.^[3] He received the same degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1740 and the University of Oxford in 1761.^[4]

Career

Barry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1732.^[5] Additionally he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1740 and its president in 1749.^[6] Barry became Physician-General to the Army in Ireland in 1745.^[6] He taught as Regius Professor of Physic Dublin University between 1754 and 1761.^[6] A year later, Barry became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and then a censor in 1763.^[7] He entered the Irish House of Commons in 1744, representing Charleville until 1760.^[1] On 1 August 1775, he was created a baronet, of the City of Dublin, in the Baronetage of Ireland.^[8]

Family

On 18 December 1746, Barry married secondly Jane Dopping, daughter of Anthony Dopping, sometime the Bishop of Ossory.^[6] He had four sons by his first wife^[9] and also three sons and two daughters by his second wife.^[6] Barry died at Bath, Somerset and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Nathaniel.^[6] His third son Robert was also a Member of Parliament for Charleville.^[1]

References

1. Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2006). MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800. Ulster Historical Foundation. p. 68. ISBN 1-903688-60-4.
2. The Complete Baronetage, vol. V, ed. G. E. Cokayne, William Pollard & Co., 1906, p. 385
3. The Complete Baronetage, vol. V, ed. G. E. Cokayne, William Pollard & Co., 1906, p. 385
4. The Complete Baronetage, vol. V, ed. G. E. Cokayne, William Pollard & Co., 1906, p. 385
5. "Royal Society - Library and Archive catalogue". Retrieved 30 March 2009.
6. Belcher, T. W. (1866). Memoirs of Sir Patrick Dun (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges, Smith and Co. pp. 63–64.
7. The Complete Baronetage, vol. V, ed. G. E. Cokayne, William Pollard & Co., 1906, p. 385
8. "No. 11576". The London Gazette. 4 July 1775. p. 1.
9. The Complete Baronetage, vol. V, ed. G. E. Cokayne, William Pollard & Co., 1906, p. 385

Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by John Lysaght Price Hartstonge	Member of Parliament for Charleville 1744–1760 With: John Lysaght 1744–1759 Viscount Dungarvon 1759–1760	Succeeded by Richard Cox Thomas Warren
Baronetage of Ireland
New creation	Baronet (of Dublin) 1775–1776	Succeeded by Nathaniel Barry