BARNARD, THOMAS, elder son of William Barnard (qv); bapt. Esher, Surrey 22 Feb 1727 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Jan 1737/8; KS 1741; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 24 Oct 1744; BA 1748; MA (Camb. ) 1749, incorp. Dublin 1750; DD Dublin 1761; ordained; Rector of Maghera and Killelagh, Derry, 1752; Archdeacon of Derry 3 Jun 1761; Dean of Derry 2 Jun 1769; consecrated Bishop of Killaloe 20 Feb 1780; translated to see of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe 12 Sep 1794; FRS 29 May 1783; Hon. Chaplain to the Royal Academy from 1791; a member of the celebrated “Literary Club”, the “good Dean” of Goldsmith’s Retaliation, and the subject of Johnson’s charade (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, iv, 195); drew up the Round Robin (ibid, ii, 82-5); his famous encounter with Johnson is told by Richard Burke (Burke’s Correspondence, 1844, i, 403-7, and Boswell, Life of Johnson, iv, 115, 431-3); m. 1st, 20 Jul 1758 Anne, dau. of William Browne, Browne’s Hill, Co. Carlow; m. 2nd, 1803, Jane, dau. of John Ross-Lewin, Fort Fergus, Co. Clare; d. 7 Jun 1806. DNB.