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 446 COMPLETE PEERAGE BARRY EARLDOM [I.] VII. 1773- lo. Richard (Barry), Earl of Barry- more, ^'c. [I.], s. and h., b. 14 Aug. 1769, and bap. at St. Marylebone. M.P. (Whig) for Heytesbury 1791-93. Though of con- siderable talents, his career was wild and perhaps only equalled in profligacy by the Duke of Buckingham. (") It was termin- ated in his 24th year by the explosion of his musket, near Folkestone, while escorting (as Capt. in the Berks Militia) some French prisoners to Dover. He m., about 7 (") June 1792, Charlotte, da. of ( — ) GouLDiNG, (a sedan chairman) by Phillis, (sister of Lastitia, the wife of Sir John Lade, Bart.) da. of ( — ) Smith. C^) He d. s.p., 6, and was bur. 17 Mar. 1793, at Wargrave, Berks. Admon. 26 Mar. 1794, under ;^5000. His widow, who was a minor aged 18 in Mar. 1794, w., 22 Sep. 1794, Robert Williams, Capt. 3rd Regt. Foot Guards. VISCOUNTCY [I.] XII. BARONY [I.] XXV. EARLDOM [I.] VIII. VISCOUNTCY [I.] XIII. BARONY [I.] XXVI. 1793 to 1823. II. Henry (Barry), Earl of Barry- more, Viscount Buttevant and Lord Barry [I.], br. and h., b. 21 Oct. 1770, at Marylebone. Matric. at Oxford (Ex. Coll.) 21 Apr. 1788. He m.y 24 Jan. 1795, at Cork, by spec, lie, Anne, ist da. of Jeremiah Coghlan, of Ardo, co. Water- ford. He d. s.p. legit., 18 Dec. 1823, of apoplexy, aged 53, at the house of the Due (") See his character in Sir Egerton Brydges' Biographical Peerage (18 1 7), vol. iv, p. 37. Also a vast amount of information as to the character, position, iifc, of various members of this family is given in " N. is Q., " 5th Ser., vol. xi, p. 276, et ante. In 1790 he and a lady figure as " The theatrical peer of Berks and Antonietta " in the scandalous t^te-a-tete portraits in the Town and Country Mag., vol. xxii, p. 59. (See Appendix B in the last volume of this work). He and his family received, from their friend the Prince Regent, the following nicknames — he himself, "Hellgate ;" his ^r. and successor Henry, who had a club foot, " Cripplegate ; " his yst br. Augustus, " New- gate ; " and his sister, owing to the flow and vigour of her language, " Billingsgate." A caricature by Gillray, entitled Les trois Magots, shows the three men as " A Hellgate blackguard, " " A Cripplegate Monster, " and " A Newgate Scrub. " The last Earls of Barrmore, by John Robert Robinson, 1894, contains much gossip of the period. Sir Herbert Croft, in the Abbey of Kilkhasnpton, p. loi, ed. 1788, mentions his fondness for racing, " his courage, his fickleness, his merriment," and calls him "a comely youth, son of a comely mother. " In 1797 the annual rental from his estates was said to be ;^7500. For a list of the largest resident Irish landlords at that date see vol. iv. Appendix C. V.G. He sold the Barrymore estates, including Castle Lyons and Buttevant, to John Anderson, of Fermoy, reserving ;(^4,ooo a year for himself and ;|^i,ooo for his widow, for life. Castle Lyons was burnt down about 1775. C") On 6 June 1792, he started from London with Miss Goulding for Gretna Green, but neither the place nor exact date of the marriage is certainly known. V.G. n " Joseph Darby, Esq., " presumably her mother's br. -in-law, appears as her