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