Sir Henry Barron, 1st Baronet

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| birth_place = Ballymil, County Waterford, Ireland

| relations = Edward Barron (brother)

| alma_mater = Trinity College Dublin

| office = Member of Parliament for Waterford City

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1872|04|19|1795|10|15|df=yes}}

| death_place = Ferrybank, Waterford, Ireland

| birth_date = {{birth date|1795|10|15|df=yes}}

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| term = {{ubl|1832–1841|1842–1847|1848–1852|1865–1868|1869–1870}}

| honorific_suffix = DL

| office1 = High Sheriff of County Waterford

| term1 = 1858

| party = Liberal Party

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Sir Henry Winston Barron, 1st Baronet DL (15 October 1795 – 19 April 1872){{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB2.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224753/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB2.htm | archive-date = 1 May 2008 | title = Leigh Rayment – Baronetage | url-status = usurped | access-date = 17 October 2009 }} was an Irish baronet and politician, who stood at nine different general elections.

Background

Born at Ballymil in County Waterford, he was the son of Pierce Barron and his wife Anna, only daughter of Henry Winston.{{cite book | last = Dod | first = Robert P. | title = The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland | year = 1860 | publisher = Whitaker and Co. | location = London | pages = 105–106 }} His younger brother was the bishop Edward Barron. Barron was educated at Trinity College Dublin.{{cite book | last = Debrett | first = John | title = Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench | publisher = Dean & Son | location = London | year = 1870 | editor = Robert Henry Mair | pages = 16 }}

Career

He entered the British House of Commons for Waterford City in 1832, however he lost his seat in the general election of 1841.{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons1.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231529/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons1.htm | archive-date = 10 August 2009 | title = Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Waterford | url-status = usurped | access-date = 17 October 2009 }} In October of the same year, he was created a baronet, of Bellevue, in the County of Kilkenny.{{ London Gazette | issue = 20010 |page=2155 | date = 24 August 1841 }} A year later, both representatives for the constituency were unseated and Barron was returned to parliament until 1847. He was re-elected in 1848, sitting for the next four years. Barron was again successful in the general election of 1865 and represented Waterford City until 1868. Although he won the constituency's by-election in the following year, the result was declared void because of bribery in 1870. Barron served as High Sheriff of County Waterford for 1858{{London Gazette|city = e|issue = 6775|page=181|date= 29 January 1958}} and also as a justice of the peace and a deputy lieutenant of the county.

Family

On 1 May 1822, he married Anna Leigh Guy Page-Turner, the only daughter of Sir Gregory Page-Turner (1748–1805), Third Baronet.{{cite book | last = Walford | first = Edward | title = The County Families of the United Kingdom | url = https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof01walf | year = 1860 | publisher = Robert Hardwicke | location = London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof01walf/page/34 34] }} They had a son, Sir Henry Page-Turner Barron, 2nd Baronet (1824–1900),{{cite web |title=Barron, Henry Page Turner, Sir, 2nd Baronet (1824 -1900) |url=https://armorial.bibsoc.org.uk/stamp-owners/BAR006.html |website=armorial.bibsoc.org.uk |publisher=British Armorial Bindings |access-date=20 April 2025}} and a daughter, Emily Frances Barron (c. 1827–1913).{{cite book |last1=Usher |first1=John |title=Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist: Volume 1 (1860-1914) |date=7 September 2020 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-43504-9 |page=13 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cecil_Polhill_Missionary_Gentleman_and_R/6fP_DwAAQBAJ |access-date=20 April 2025 |language=en}} His first wife died in 1852, and Barron married secondly Augusta Anna, youngest daughter of Lord Charles Somerset at St George's, Hanover Square on 1 August 1863.{{cite book | last = Sylvanus | first = Urban | title = The Gentleman's Magazine | location = London | publisher = John Henry and James Parker | year = 1863 | pages = 371 | volume = part II }} This marriage was childless.

Barron died aged 76 in 1872 and was buried at Ferrybank, Waterford.{{cite book | editor = Joseph Jackson Howard | title = Visitation of England and Wales | volume = II | publisher = Frederick A. Crisp | location = London | year = 1897 | pages = 65 }} He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son,{{cite book | last = Debrett | first = John | title = Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage | publisher = Oldhams Press | location = London | year = 1893 | pages = 30 }} who never married.

Emily Frances Barron married Frederick Polhill-Turner in 1852.