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

  1. ^ Parliamentary Manual for ... 1838, etc. J. Ridgway & Sons. 1 January 1838.
  2. ^ a b "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. ^ "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
  6. ^ 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 byViscount Boyle Edmund Burke Roche Member of Parliament for County Cork 1835–1841 With: Feargus O'Connor Richard Longfield Succeeded byDaniel O'Connell Edmond Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy


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