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SIR REDMOND BARRY (1813-188o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 445 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:REDMOND See also:BARRY (1813-188o)  , See also:British colonial See also:judge, son of See also:Major-See also:General H . G . See also:Barry, of Ballyclough, Co . See also:Cork, was educated at a military school in See also:Kent, and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, and was called to the Irish See also:bar in 1838 . He emigratedto See also:Australia, and after a See also:short stay at See also:Sydney went to See also:Melbourne, with which See also:city he was ever afterwards closely identified . After practising his profession for some years, he became See also:commissioner of the See also:court of See also:requests, and after the creation in 1851 of the See also:colony of See also:Victoria, out of the See also:Port See also:Phillip See also:district of New See also:South See also:Wales, was' the first See also:solicitor-general with a seat in the legislative and executive See also:councils . Subsequently he held the offices of judge of the Supreme Court, acting See also:chief-See also:justice and See also:administrator of the See also:government . He represented Victoria at the See also:London See also:International See also:Exhibition of 1862 and at the See also:Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876 . He was knighted in 186o and was created K.C.M.G. in 1877 . See also:Sir See also:Redmond Barry was the first See also:person in Victoria to take an See also:interest in higher See also:education, and induced the See also:local government to expend large sums of See also:money upon that See also:object . He was the founder of the university of Melbourne (1853), of which he was the first See also:chancellor, was See also:president of the Melbourne public library (1854), See also:national See also:gallery and museum, and was one of the first to See also:foster the volunteer See also:movement in Australia . To his exertions is due the prosperity of the two institutions with which his memory is identified .

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