Sir Redmond Barry (
1813—
1880),
British colonial
judge, son of Major-General
H. G. Barry[?], of Ballyclough, Co. Cork, was educated at a military school in
Kent, and at
Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the
Irish bar[?] in
1838. He emigrated to
Australia, and after a short stay at
Sydney went to
Melbourne, with which city he was ever afterwards closely identified. After practising his profession for some years, he became commissioner of the court of requests, and after the creation in
1851 of the colony of
Victoria, out of the
Port Philip[?] district of
New South Wales, was the first solicitor-general with a seat in the legislative and executive councils. Subsequently he held the offices of judge of the
Supreme Court, acting chief-justice and administrator of the government.
He represented Victoria at the London International Exhibition[?] of 1862 and at the Philadelphia Exhibition[?] of 1876. He was knighted in 1860 and was created K.C.M.G. in 1877. Sir Redmond Barry was the first person in Victoria to take an interest in higher education, and induced the local government to expend large sums of money upon that object. He was the founder of the university of Melbourne (1853), of which he was the first chancellor, was president of the Melbourne public library[?] (1854), national gallery and museum1and was one of the first to foster the volunteer movement in Australia.
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