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, 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.
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