Sir Henry Winston Barron, 1st Baronet DL (15 October 1795 – 19 April 1872)[1] was an Irish baronet and politician, who stood at nine different general elections.
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Background
editBorn at Ballymil in County Waterford, he was the son of Pierce Barron and his wife Anna, only daughter of Henry Winston.[2] His younger brother was the bishop Edward Barron. Barron was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3]
Career
editHe entered the British House of Commons for Waterford City in 1832, however he lost his seat in the general election of 1841.[4] In October of the same year, he was created a baronet, of Bellevue, in the County of Kilkenny.[5] A year later, both representatives for the constituency were unseated and Barron was returned to parliament until 1847.[4] He was re-elected in 1848, sitting for the next four years.[4] Barron was again successful in the general election of 1865 and represented Waterford City until 1868.[4] Although he won the constituency's by-election in the following year, the result was declared void because of bribery in 1870.[4] Barron served as High Sheriff of County Waterford for 1858[6] and also as a justice of the peace and a deputy lieutenant of the county.[2]
Family
editOn 1 May 1822, he married Anna Leigh Grey, the only daughter of Sir Gregory Page-Turner, Fourth Baronet;[7] they had a daughter and a son. She died in 1852, and Barron married secondly Augusta Anna, youngest daughter of Lord Charles Somerset at St George's, Hanover Square on 1 August 1863.[8] This marriage was childless.
Barron died aged 76 in 1872 and was buried at Ferrybank, Waterford.[9] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Henry.[10]
Works
edit- Notes on Education in Germany and Holland (1840)
References
edit- ^ "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2009.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. pp. 105–106.
- ^ Debrett, John (1870). Robert Henry Mair (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. p. 16.
- ^ a b c d e "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Waterford". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2009.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "No. 20010". The London Gazette. 24 August 1841. p. 2155.
- ^ "No. 6775". The Edinburgh Gazette. 29 January 1958. p. 181.
- ^ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Robert Hardwicke. pp. 34.
- ^ Sylvanus, Urban (1863). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part II. London: John Henry and James Parker. p. 371.
- ^ Joseph Jackson Howard, ed. (1897). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. II. London: Frederick A. Crisp. p. 65.
- ^ Debrett, John (1893). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. London: Oldhams Press. p. 30.