Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore
- Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore
Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore PC (17 January 1843–22 February 1925), was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician.
Smith-Barry was the son of James Hugh Smith Barry, of Marbury, Cheshire, and Fota Island, County Cork, and his wife Eliza, daughter of Shallcross Jacson. His paternal grandfather John Smith Barry was the illegitimate son of James Hugh Smith Barry, son of the Hon. John Smith Barry, younger son of Lieutenant-General James Barry, 4th Earl of Barrymore (a title which had become extinct in 1823; see the Earl of Barrymore). He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and entered Parliament as one of two representatives for County Cork in 1867, a seat he held until 1874. Smith-Barry remained out of the House of Commons for the next twelve years but returned in 1886 when he was elected for Huntingdon, and represented this constituency until 1900. He was also High Sheriff of County Cork in 1886 and was tasked by Arthur Balfour to organise landlord resistance to the tenant Plan of Campaign movement of the late 1880s. He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1896. In 1902 the Barrymore title held by his ancestors was revived when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Barrymore, of Barrymore in the County of Cork.
Lord Barrymore married firstly Lady Mary Frances, daughter of Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, in 1868. After her death in 1884 he married secondly Elizabeth, daughter of General James Wadsworth and widow of Arthur Post, in 1889. There were children from both marriages. Lord Barrymore died in February 1925, aged 82. His only son James had died as an infant in 1871 and consequently the barony became extinct on Barrymore's death. The Irish family seat of Fota House was passed on to his daughter from his second marriage, the Hon. Dorothy, wife of Major W. B. Bell. Lady Barrymore died in May 1930.
ee also
*Earl of Barrymore
References
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/ www.thepeerage.com]
* [http://www.fotahouse.com/handg_history.php fotahouse.com]
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