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BARRY, THOMAS, son of Spranger Barry, Dublin, actor, and his first wife; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1752; KS 1758; d. Apr 1768.

BARRY, SIR NATHANIEL, BART., eldest son of Sir Edward Barry, Bart., MD FRS FRCP, President, Royal College of Physicians, Ireland, also MP (I), who practised medicine successively in Dublin and London, and his first wife; b.; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1738 (Preston's); Min. Can. 1739; left 1741; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. . 29 Feb 1739/40 (sic), aged 15 (pupil of “Dr. Grey”); BA 1744, MB 1748, MD 1751; entered medical profession; King’s Professor of Surgery and Midwifery, Trinity Coll. Dublin, from 1749; Physician-Gen. to Army, Ireland, jointly with father 17 Mar 1749/50- Mar 1776, afterwards on his own; FRCP (I); succeeded father as 2nd baronet 29 Mar 1776; m. 3 Jan 1758 Catherine, dau. of Walter Jones, Headfort, co. Leitrim; d. 1785.

BARRY, HON. JOHN SMITH, brother of Hon. Arthur Barry (qv); b. 28 Jul 1725; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1738/9 (Playford's); left 1742; assumed additional name of Smith; inherited unsettled estates of father in Cheshire and Co. Cork; of Marbury Hall, Cheshire; High Sheriff, Cheshire 1765; m. 18 Apr 1746 Dorothy, dau. of Hugh Smith, Weald Hall, Essex; d. 9 Sep 1784.

BARROW, THOMAS, second son of Isaac Barrow, Spinney Abbey, Wicken, Cambs. , and his first wife Rebecca, dau. of Richard Yonge, Berkhampsted, Herts. ; b. 22 Apr 1600; adm. ; KS (Aubrey, Brief Lives, i, 93-4, but the description “a King’s Scholar at Westminster” may have been intended by Aubrey to apply to his son, the mathematician Isaac Barrow); a linen draper, parish of St. Leonard, Foster Lane, London; m. Anne, dau. of William Buggin, North Cray, Kent; buried at Bexley, Kent, 24 Aug 1687.

Barrow, Robert Ruffin, brother of Christopher Thorp Barrow (qv); b. 31 July 1945; adm. Sept. 1963 (L); left July 1964; Grinnell Coll., IA, USA 1964-6; Univ. of Iowa 1967-9; Univ. of Wisconsin, USA 1970-4, BBA; Harvard Bus. Sch., USA, MBA 1976; Texas Internat. Life Insurance Corpn. 1974; chief exec. Internat. Gen. Ins. Co., Milwaukee, WI, USA, 1982-; m. 21 Dec. 1970 Barbara Mary Ann Carol, d. of Maj. Clifford E. M. King; d. 9 Dec. 2004.

Barrow, Reginald Francis Ralph, son of Henry Frank Alexander Barrow, of Burgess Hill, Sussex, by Mabel Lucy, daughter of Thomas Edward Beard, of Lewes, Sussex; b. April 24, 1897; adm. Jan. 18, 1912 (H); A.C.A. 1926; served in the War Office and the Ministry of Munitions during Great War I; d. Feb. 10, 1960.

Barrow, Eric Loraine, only son of Claude Loraine Barrow, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., by Marie Valerie, daughter of the Rev. Philip Gurden, of Assington, Suffolk; b. April 24, 1899; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (A); left Dec. 1914, and went to Wellington College.

BARRON, HERBERT GEORGE, eldest son of George Bretherton Barron MD LRCP MRCS, Southport, Lancs., and Mary J. --- (1881 Census); b. 24 Feb 1851; adm. 6 Jul 1864 (James'); QS 1866; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1870, matr. 8 Jun 1870; BA 1874; University Coll. Hospital; LRCP, MRCS 1879; practised at Southport; m. 19 Jun 1878 Ellen Cook (IGI); d. 21 Dec 1910.

Barrington-Ward, Sir (Victor) Michael, brother of Frederick Temple Barrington-Ward (q.v.); b. July 17, 1887; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1901; left July 1904; Edin. Univ.; 1st class Engineering and B.Sc. 1907; assist. to engineer, Midland Railway, 1907, assist. to Gen. Supt. 1914; Director of Railway Operations, Ministry of Transport, 1919-22; District Supt. L. N. E. R. 1922-27; Supt. (Western Section) L. N. E. R. 1927-39, (Southern Area) 1939-42; assist. General Manager 1942-5; Divisional General Manager 1945-7; a member of the Railway Executive 1947-53; Chairman, Operating Committee, Railway Executive Committee, 1938-45; served in. Great War I; Capt. 11th (Serv.) Batt. South Lancs Regt. Oct. 14, 1914; Major R.E. June 2, 1915; Lieut.-Col. Jan. 1, 1919; mentioned in despatches L.G. Oct. 20, 1916, Jan. 4 and Dec. 14, 1917, May 21, 1918; D.S.O. Oct. 20, 1916; Croix de Guerre avec Palmes Dec. 1918; C.B.E. June 14, 1945; K.C.V.O. June 5, 1952; m. 1st Nov. 25, 1920, Barbara, only daughter of John Taylor Pilling, of Wolverley Court, Worcs.; 2nd 1938 Isobel, elder daughter of Stanley James Kerfoot, M.R.C.S., of Clifton, Bristol; d. 28 July 1972.

Barrington-Ward, Robert McGowan, brother of Frederick Temple Barrington-Ward (q.v.); b. Feb. 23, 1891; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1903; Mure Scholar 1907; Capt. of the School 1908; left (with Triplett) July 1909; Ball. Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1909; 1st class Classical Moderations 1911; President, Oxford Union Society, 1912; B.A. 1913; Tancred Student, Lincoln's Inn, 1911, called to the bar May 14, 1919; Editorial Secretary of The Times 1913; 2nd Lieut. 6th Batt. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Aug. 21, 1914; Gen. Staff Officer Feb. 3, 1917; temp. Major July 13, 1918; served in France and Flanders; wounded at Bullecourt May 1917; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1 and June 15, 1916, Dec. 11, 1917; M.C. Jan. r, 1917; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1918; Asst. Editor of The Observer 1919-27; of The Times 1927-34; Deputy Editor of The Times 1934-41; Editor 1941; a Governor of the School 1946; Hon. Fellow of Ball. Coll. Oxon. 1947; author of A Memoir and Selected Addresses of James Gow, Litt. D. (1924), and other works; m. Dec. 1, 1926, Margaret Adele, only daughter of Evasis Hampden Radice, C. I. E.; d. on a cruise at Dar-es-Salaam Feb. 29, 1948. See Diet. Nat. Biog. 1941-50, p. 64.