Barry Maxwell, 1st Earl of FarnhamPC (Ire) (1723 – 7 October 1800),[1] styled The Honourable Barry Maxwell from 1756 to 1779, was an Irish peer and politician.
He was Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas between 1741 and 1800, was called to the Irish Bar in 1748 and was appointed a Bencher in 1757. On his brother's death in November 1779, he succeeded as 3rd Baron Farnham,[3] inheriting the Farnham estate. He commissioned James Wyatt, one of the most fashionable architects of the time, to design a new house. These plans are now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Anne Maxwell; she married Richard Fox of Fox Hall in 1787.
Judith Maxwell, died unmarried in 1818.
He then married secondly on 5 August 1771 to Grace Burdett, daughter of Arthur Burdett of Ballymaney. They had the following issue:[2]
Grace Maxwell (died 19 June 1866); she married Sir Ralph St George, 7th Baronet (1758–1842)
Elizabeth Maxwell, died unmarried in January 1782.
On his death, he was succeeded by his son John James.
Notesedit
^E. M. Johnston-Liik (2006). MPs in Dublin. Ulster Historical Foundation. p. 106. ISBN9781903688601.
^ abcJohn Fielding (1790). Fielding's New Peerage of England, Scotland & Ireland. John Murray. p. 242.
^ ab"National Library of Ireland – Collection List No. 95 – FARNHAM PAPERS" (PDF). National Library of Ireland. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
Referencesedit
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. (ISBN033338847X), [page needed]
Maxwell family genealogy, part 03. showing the Maxwell of Calderwood, Maxwell of Farnham (co. Cavan), and Maxwell of Finnebrogue families.
An examination into the principles contained in a pamphlet entitled The speech of lord Minto, with some remarks upon a pamphlet entitled Observations on that part of the speaker's speech which relates to trade- A pamphlet written by the Earl opposing the Act of Union 1800
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