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BARROWS. Thomas J. Mumfurd (Boston. 1S79), an antiqua- rian report on the Records of the First Vliurch, Dorchester. HU'rllM! (1S80), the memorial of Ezra Abbot, D.D., LL.D. (Cambridge, 1884), and Theodore Pariier's West Rooobury Hermons, JS37- 48 (1892), and writing elaborate reports for the United States Government on penological matters, he has published The Doom of the Ma- joritij of Mankind (1883); .1 Baptist Meeting- House: The i-18o4). A C€ntral American states- man, born in Guatemala. He was prominent in the revolt against Spain, and in 1813 was con- demned to death for treason, but made his es- cape. In 1823-24 he was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of Central America, and introduced the measure which eiTeeted the abolition of slaverv. He was President of Cen- tral America in 1829-30, and of the Confederation of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador in 1851- ryl. In 1854 he came to the United States as envoy from Honduras, with the purpose of nego- tiating for the annexation of that State to the .-American Republic, but died before anything had been accomplished.

BAR'RY. A seaport town and railway ter- minus in Glamorganshire. Wales, 7 miles south- west of Cardiff (Map: Wales, 5). It has tine docks and a tidal basin covering 90 acres be- tweeji the mainland and Barry Island, and car- ries on an export trade in coal, and iron and its manufactures. The municipality is particularly progressive; it owns gas and water-works, abat- toirs, cemeteries, and maintains public schools, a public library, and reading-rooms, garden al- lotments, parks, several hospitals, and a sana- torium. It initiated the prohibition of unli- censed houses for lodging seamen, and instituted a svstem of licensed houses. Population, in 1891, 13,300; in 1901, 27,000.

BARRY (Fr. barre, p.p. of harrer, to bar). In heraldry, the term applied to a shield which is divided transversely into four, six, or more equal parts. Barrii-hendy is where the shield is both barred and bended, so as to present a loz- enged surface. Barry-pily is where the shield is divided by bars and diagonal lines, so as to show piles or wedge-shaped figures.

BARRY, Alfred (182G— ). An English bishop. He was born in London, and was educated at King's College, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was head-master of the grammar school at Leeds from 1854 to 1802, and became principal of Cheltenham College in 1802, and of King's College, London, in 1868. He was appointed examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1869, became canon of Wor- cester in 1871, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen in 1877, and canon of Westminster in 1881. From 1884 to 1889 he was primate of Australia, metropolitan of Xew South Wales, and bishop of Sydney. He resigned his see in 1889, and re- turned to England, where he was made canon of Windsor in 1891, and assistant to the Bishop of London in 1897. His numerous publications include: Introduction to the Old Testament (18,50) ; Boyle Lectures, 1876, 1877, 1878; Chris- tianity and Socieilism (1891) ; England's Mission to India (1894).

BARRY, Sir Charles (1795-1800). An English architect. He was born at Westminster, May 23, 1795. Educated at private schools in Leicestershire and Bedfordshire, he was inden- tured to a finii of architects at Lambeth. At the age of 22, he went to Italy. A wealthy com- patriot, attracted by the beauty of his drawings, took him, in 1818, to Egypt. He also visited Greece and Palestine. On his return to England in 1820, he designed a church at Brighton, the Sussex; County Hospital, and the Manchester Athenajum, a building in the (Jrecian style, and built King Edward's Grammar School at Bir- mingham, the latter esteemed the most beauti- ful of his works. In London, he designed the very successful Traveler's Club (1832) and the Reform Club (1837), both in Pall Mall, and the College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields. After the burning of the old Houses of Parliament in 1834, on a public competition, Barry's design for the new building was adjudged the" best (1836). The work was commenced in 1840, and on Febru- ary 3, 1852, Queen Victoria opened the Victoria Tower and Royal Gallery in state, and on the occasion knighted the architect. Chosen a Royal Academician in 1844, Sir Charles was also a Fel- low of the Royal Society, of the Society of Arts, and of the Institute of British Architects.

BARRY, ba're', CoiiTESSE du. See Du Barry.

BAR'RY, (1830-80). An English architect, the son and pupil of Sir Charles Barry, whom he succeeded as architect of the Houses of Parliament. He built the new Covent Garden Theatre, the new opera house in Malta, the Charing Cross and Star and Garter hotels, and the New National Gallery in London.

BARRY, Elizabeth (16.58-1713). A famous English actress, whose dramatic powers seem to have been latent until awakened by her lover, the Earl of Rochester. Though she was more than once dismissed as unfit for the stage, he wagered, so the story goes, that in six months he would make her a first-rate actress. When, after his tuition, she at length appeared at Dorset Garden as the Queen of Hungary in Mustapha (1673?), her success justified "his prediction. She came to be considered the greatest actress of her time, and created, it is said, 112 different roles. As Monimia, which she played to Better- ton's Castalio in The Orphan, and as Belvidera in Venice Preserved, she was perhaps most cele- brated, and delighted the heart of their author, Otway, who was devoted to her. Among her other tragic parts were Isabella, in Southerne's Fatal Marriage; Zara, in Congreve's Mourning Bride; Cassandra, in Dryden's Cleomenes ; and Calista, in The Fair Penitent. She succeeded also in com- edy, and created the character of Lady Brute, in the Provoked Wife of Vanbrugh. Her power of exhibiting every emotion was extraordinary. The utterance of her phrase, "Ah, poor Castalio!" in The Orphan, was particularly famous for being always accompanied by her own tears, as well as those of the audience. She is stated, on the authority of Cibber (Apology, eh. v.), to have been the first actress to receive a 'benefit,' which in her ease was by royal command. She became wealthy, and retired from the stage to the village of Acton some three years before she died. Consult: Genest, History of the English Stage