Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton, 1st Baronet Personal Computer was an Irish politician, author and judge.
Background
He was the eldest son of the magistrate Thomas Henry Barton, a younger son of Dunbar Barton of Rochestown, County Tipperary, who was High Sheriff of Tipperary in 1810. Barton was descended from Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe. And from the co-founder of the celebrated wine merchants Barton and Guestier. His mother Charlotte Plunket was the third daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket.
Education
He attended Harrow and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Career
Barton was called to the Irish Bar in 1880, to the English Bar in 1893, and took silk in 1898. In January 1900 he was appointed a judge of the Queen"s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland, to which appointment he was sworn in on 2 February 1900. In 1904 he was transferred to the Chancery Division where he served until his retirement in 1918.
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. Maurice Healy in his memoir The Old Munster Circuit pays warm tribute to a fine and courteous judge and "one of the kindest friends I have ever known".