Dunbar Barton

"Mid Armagh"
Barton as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1898

Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton, 1st Baronet PC (29 October 1853 – 11 September 1937) was an Irish politician, author and judge.

Barton was descended from Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe; and from the co-founder of the celebrated wine merchants Barton and Guestier. His mother was the third daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket. He attended Harrow and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Barton served as an Irish Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Armagh from 1891 to 1900 and was Solicitor-General for Ireland for two years. In 1900 he was appointed a judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the Irish High Court and in 1904 transferred to the Chancery Division where he served until his retirement in 1918. The latter year he was created a Baronet : since his only son predeceased him the title became extinct at his death.

He married Mary Manley in 1900 : their only son, Dunbar, died unmarried in 1929. He died in 1937, aged 83. He was a keen historian, with a particular interest in Marshal Bernadotte, and is said to have done much to popularise golf in Ireland.

Works

• Timothy Healy: Memories and Anecdotes
• Bernadotte, The First Phase, 1763-1799
• Bernadotte and Napoleon, 1800-1810
• Bernadotte, Prince and King, 1810-1844
• The Amazing Career of Bernadotte, 1763 to 1844
• Links Between Ireland and Shakespeare
• Links Between Shakespeare and the Law
• The Story of the Inns of Court

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Dunbar Barton, Bt

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir James Corry, Bt.	Member of Parliament for Mid Armagh 1891 – 1900	Succeeded by John Lonsdale
Legal offices
Preceded by William Kenny	Solicitor-General for Ireland 1898 – 1900	Succeeded by George Wright
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet 1918 – 1937	Extinct

Persondata
Name	Barton, Dunbar Plunket
Alternative names
Short description	Irish politician, writer and judge
Date of birth	29 October 1853
Place of birth
Date of death	11 September 1937
Place of death