Isaac Corry

Isaac Corry FRS, PC (I), PC (15 May 1753 – 15 May 1813) was an Irish and British Member of Parliament and lawyer.

Early career Born in Newry, he was the son of Edward Corry (d. 1792), sometime Member of Parliament, and Catharine Bristow. His cousin was the writer Catherine Dorothea Burdett. He was educated at the Royal School, Armagh, where his contemporaries included Viscount Castlereagh, and later at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he graduated in 1773. On 18 October 1771 he was admitted to the Middle Temple and called to the bar at King's Inns in 1779. Corry's residence in Newry was the Abbey Yard, now a school, and Derrymore House, Bessbrook, which he had inherited from his father and sold in 1810. It is now the property of the National Trust. During Corry's life, a road was constructed from near the main entrance of Derrymore House around Newry and linked up with the Dublin Road on the southern side of the town primarily for Corry's use. This road subsequently became known as "The Chancellor's Road," as a result of Corry's term as the Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer. A local legend has it that the road was constructed after an incident in which Corry's stagecoach was stoned while passing through Newry by people angry at an unpopular window tax he had introduced. The road has retained this name but it was cut in half by the Newry by-pass in the mid-1990s, however as a result of works associated with the new A1 dual carriageway the two-halves of the road have now been reconnected.

He died at his house in Merrion Square, Dublin and is buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.