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Barrymore, Baron (UK, 1902 - 1925)

Creation: let.pat. 18 July 1902

Extinct: 22 Feb 1925

Family name: Barry

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Arms:

Quarterly 1st and 4th, Argent three Bars gemel Gules;  2nd and 3rd, counterquartered I and IV, Gules on a Chevron Or between three Bezants as many Crosses Patée fitchée Sable;  II and III, Azure a Fess Argent between three Porcupines Or;  the whole within a Bordure company Ermine and of the second

Crest:

A Castle Argent issuing from the battlements thereof a Wolf's Head Sable charged with a Cross Patée fitchée Or

Supporters:

On either side a Wolf Sable gorged with a Ducal Coronet attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back and charged on the shoulder with a Cross Patée fitchée Or

Motto:

 Boutez en avant

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Arthur Hugh Smith [Barry], 1st Baron Barrymore, PC

1st son of James Hugh Smith Barry, of Marbury, co. Chester, and Fota Island, co. Cork (by his wife Eliza Jacson, 1st dau. of Capt Shalcross Jacson, of Newton Bank, co. Chester), 1st son and heir of John Smith Barry, of Marbury, co. Chester, and Fota Island, co. Cork (by his wife Eliza Mary Courtnay, dau. of Robert Courtnay), illeg. son of James Hugh Smith Barry, of Marbury, co. Chester, and Fota Island, co. Cork, 1st son of Hon John Smith Barry, of Marbury, co. Chester (by his wife Dorothy Smith, dau. and cohrss. of Hugh Smith, of Weald Hall, co. Essex), 4th son by his third wife of James [Barry], 4th Earl of Barrymore

born

17 Jan 1843

mar. (1)

17 Aug 1868 Lady Mary Frances Wyndham-Quin (d. 21 Sep 1884), 3rd dau. of Edwin Richard [Wyndham-Quin], 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, by his first wife Augusta Gould, 3rd dau. of Thomas Goold, Master in Chancery, of Merrion Square, Dublin

children by first wife

1. James Hugh Smith Barry (b. 22 Oct 1870; dvp. 18 May 1871)

1. Hon Geraldine Barry (b. 9 Jun 1869), mar. (1) 18 Jul 1893 Henry Burleigh Lethem Overend (d. 1904), and (2) 9 Nov 1917 Maj J W D Thomson

mar. (2)

28 Feb 1889 Elizabeth Post (widow of Arthur Post; d. 9 May 1930)), dau. of Gen James Wadsworth, of Geneseo, USA, Military Governor of Washington during the American Civil War, by his wife Mary Wharton, dau. of James Wharton, of Philadelphia, USA

only child by second wife

2. Hon Dorothy Elizabeth Barry, mar. 6 Jan 1917 Maj W B Bell

died

s.p.m.s. 22 Feb 1925

created

18 Jul 1902 Baron Barrymore, of Barrymore in the County of Cork

note

Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Co. Cork 1867-74 and for South Huntingdonshire 1886-1900; Chairman, Cork Defence Union 1885; High Sheriff of co. Cork 1886; Vice-President, Irish Landowners' Convention 1895; Privy Councillor [I] 1896; Chairman, National Conservative Association and the Irish Unionist Alliance 1897; Admiral, Royal Cork Yacht Club

On the death of the 1st Baron Barrymore the Barony of Barrymore became extinct.

 First written 14 Jul 2006

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