Barnaby Barnewall

Barnaby Barnewall (died 1493) was an Irish barrister and judge, and a founder member of the military guild, the Brotherhood of Saint George.

He was born at Crickstown, County Meath, to the leading Anglo-Irish family of Barnewall; Robert Barnewall, a close relative, was created the first Baron Trimleston in 1461. Barnaby is sometimes described as a brother of Sir Christopher Bernevall, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, but the great difference in their ages (Christopher was born about 1370) makes it more likely that Barnaby was his nephew.

He was "bred to the law": at that time two families, Barnewall and Plunket, dominated the Irish judiciary to a remarkable degree. He was studying law in London in 1460, and the following year was made a judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). He was charged with raising troops in County Meath in 1463, and in 1473 was appointed Collector of Revenues for Dublin and Drogheda. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Fitz-Christopher Plunket, who presided in the King's Bench during Barnaby's early years on the Court; they had no children.