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BARRY. BARRY, Mrs. Sphaxger (1734-1801), born Ann Street: afterwards successively -Mrs. Dan- cer, Mrs. Barry, and ilrs. Crawford. An Kng- lish actress. She was born at Bath, but her connection with the stage began probably in York or Portsmouth, her early career as an actress being spent with her first husband, Jlr. Dancer. In November, 1758, she appeared as Cordelia with Spranger Barry in Lear, at his new thea- tre in Dublin. After several years there she went with him to London (17(i7), married him the next year, and played with him until his death. Afterwards she married a -Mr. Crawford, and continued uijon the stage for about twenty vears, playing in London, and, for a time (1781- '83), in Dublin. She Was a powerful actress, with a voice which at vehement moments made an ex- traordinary inipression. Her acting of Desde- Diona was considered almost a creation of the part, which up to that time had been little thought of. The list of her notable rules in- cludes also, besides Cordelia, ilonimia, in The Orpliini. and Lady Randolpli. in Doiiglns, in which she is said to have made her last appear- ance, some three or four years before her death. Consult the authorities referred to in the preced- ing article.

BARRY, (1855 — ). An American soldier, born in New York City. He graduated at the United States Military Acad- emy, served on frontier and on garrison duty in Dakota, Texas, Arizona, and California, and rose to be brigadier-general U.S.V. and lieutenant- colonel U.S.A. From 1898 to IflOO he was adju- tant-general of the Eighth Army Corps and the Military Department of the Pacific. In 1000 he was appointed chief of staff of the Division of the Pliilippines.

BARRY, William Farquiiab (1818-79). An American soldier, born in New Y'ork City. He graduated in 1838 at the United States Military Academy, assisted Major Ringgold in the organi- zation of the first battery of light artillery in the United States Army, and served (1840-48) in the Mexican Var. He also served in the Sem- inole War from 1852 to 1853: he was on fron- tier and garrison duty from 1853 to 1801, and in 1858 was a member of the board for the revision of the system of light artillery tactics. He entered the Civil Var as major of the Fifth Artillery; from 1801 to 1802, with rank of brig- adier-general of volunteers, was chief of artillery of the Army of the Potomac, and in 1803-04 was chief of artillery of the defenses of Washington, D. C. From 1804 to 1800 he was chief of artil- lery on the stafT of General Sherman (ililitary Division of the Mississippi), and in 1800 was mustered out of the volunteer service as colonel of the Second Artillery and brevet major-general United States Army. "From 1800 to 1807 (at the time of the attempted Fenian raids into Canada) he was in command of the northern frontier ; and from 1867 to 1877 he was in command of the artillery school for practice at Fort Monroe, Va.; and from 1877 to 1879 of Fort ilcHenry, Md. With Gen. .J. G. Barnard, he published Repoi-ts of the Enffineer ami Artillery Operations of the Annii of the Potomac (1803).

BARRY, William Taylor (1785-1835). An American politician and jurist. He was born at Lunenburg, Va., graduated at William and Mary College in 1807, and practiced law at Lexington, Kv. Having already served in the State Legisla- ture, he was in 1810 elected to Congress. He fought in the War of 1812, entered the Senate in 1815. and in 1810 resigned to accept an appoint-, nient as justice of the State Supreme Court. In 1829-33 he w-as Postmaster-General, and was the first incumbent of the oliiee to sit in the Cabinet. In 1835 he was appointed Minister to Spain, and died on the voyage to that country.

BARRY, William Francis (1849—). An Englisli clergyman and author. He was born in London and educated at Oscott and the English College, Rome. From 1873 to 1877 he was vice- president and professor of philosophy at Bir- mingham Theological College, and professor of divinity at Oscott, 1877-80. From 1883 he was in charge of the small parish of Dorchester, near Oxford, and devoted his time largely to literary work. Besides a large number of articles in the leading English reviews on metaphysical and ethical subjects, he is the author of several suc- cessful novels: The 'Xew Antigone, a powerful study of modern views in regard to marriage ( 1887) : The Place of Dreamfi ( 1894) ; The Two Standards (1898) : Arden MassUer (1900) ; and The Wizard's Knot (1901).

BARRY CORN'WALL. See Procter, Bryan Waller.

BARRY LYNDON, lin'don. The title of one of Thackeray's lesser novels. It appeared serially in Frascr (1844), and narrates the career of an Irish adventurer.

BAR'RYMORE, Maurice (1847—). An actor and playwriglit, named llerljert Blythe. He was born in India and educated at Cambridge, England; but, having gone upon the stage, came to America to appear, early in 1875, and has since been most of the time in this country, where he has played with many of the best- known actors. He was married in 1870 to Georgiana Drew, daughter of Mrs. John Drew. His first season here was at the Boston Theatre, in The Shaut/hraun. In 1882 he became lead- ing man for Mine. Jlodjeska: in 1887, for Mrs. Langtry; in 1893, for Mrs. Bernard Beere; and the following season for Olga Nethersole. He is the author of Nadjeska, which was produced by Mine. Modjeska in 1884, and of other plays. Consult Coward, in Faynous Americayi Actors of To-day, ed. McKay and Wingate (New Y"ork, 1890)'.

BAR SHOT. A double-headed shot, in shape like a dumb-bell, consisting of a bar, with a half ball or round head at each end. Bar shot were formerly employed in naval warfare for the pur- pose of destroying masts and rigging.

BARSU'MA, or BARSUMAS I. ( ?— e.489). A Nestorian, who became Bishop of Nisibis and Metropolitan, 435. He induced the King of Per- sia to expel the Christians who followed the Greek fathers, and to put Nestorians in their place (402). He founded the theological school at Nisibis, which sent missionaries to various countries. He married a nun ( Mamnifea ), and maintained the right of all priests to marry. In Persia the Nestorians venerate him as the foun- der of their faith.

BAR-SUR-AUBE, biirsu'r6b' (Fr., Bar on the Aube). A town in the Department of Aube, France, on the right bank of the river of that name, 30 miles east of Troyes (Map: France, I.