Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore Personal Computer was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician.
Background
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 Honorary John Smith Barry, younger son of Lieutenant-General James Barry, 4th Earl of Barrymore (a title which had become extinct in 1823.
See Earl of Barrymore).
Education
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
Career
Smith-Barry 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. Smith-Barry played two first-class cricket matches for the Marylebone Club, playing once in 1873 and once in 1875.
Lord Barrymore married firstly Lady Mary Frances, daughter of Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, in 1868. There were children from both marriages.
Lord Barrymore died in London in February 1925, aged 82, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.
Dorothy Elizabeth (1894–1975), wife of Major William Bertram Bell. Lady Barrymore died in May 1930. In 1939 the estate of Fota Island and the ground rents of areas was acquired by Arthur Hugh"s daughter, The Honorary
Mistress
Dorothy Bell for the sum of £31,000.
Membership
19th United Kingdom Parliament. 20th United Kingdom Parliament. 24th United Kingdom Parliament.
25th United Kingdom Parliament.
26th United Kingdom Parliament.