About Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet
Lived 1696 – 1776 (aged 79–80). Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet was a politician.
Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet FRS (1696 – 29 March 1776) In 1717, Barry graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Subsequently, he studied at the University of Leyden in the Netherlands and became a Doctor of Medicine in 1721. He received the same degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1740 and the University of Oxford in 1761.
Career Barry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1732. Additionally he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1740 and its president in 1749. He entered the Irish House of Commons in 1744, representing Charleville until 1760.
Family On 18 December 1746, Barry married secondly Jane Dopping, daughter of Anthony Dopping, sometime the Bishop of Ossory. He had four sons by his first wife and also three sons and two daughters by his second wife.
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Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet was born in 1696.
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Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet died on 29 March 1776.
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