Redmond Barry: A colonial life 1813-1880 by Peter Ryan (Second hand book)

SECOND HAND BOOK

Sir Redmond Barry was born on 7 June 1813 at Ballyclough, County Cork, Ireland. Barry studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, and was admitted to the Irish Bar in 1838. Barry arrived in Australia in 1839, arriving in Sydney. However, Redmond Barry relocated to Melbourne, where he found his home in Australia.

Redmond Barry is noted as a barrister becoming the “standing council” for the Aboriginal people in Port Phillip, as it is purported, he witnessed injustices occurring between the Indigenous people and the new “white law” due to colonisation. As opposed to the majority of his counterparts, Barry is reported to have seen Aboriginal people as equals, and his open-minded and unbiased attitude was seen as unequaled in the colony.

As a consequence of the Eureka Stockade, Sir Redmund Barry was the Judge that presided over of the court that tried the eleven Eureka Stockade rebels in 1855, what is known as the Eureka Treason Trial. Judge Redmund Barry also presided over the case in the supreme court of another notable figure in Ballarat history, James Scobie who was murdered in 1854, attributed as another factor that led to the ensuing rebellion.

Sir Redmond Barry was one of the founding members and trustees of the establishment of the Ballarat School of Mines, in 1871. He was President of the Ballarat School of Mines Council from 1870 to 1876. Barry assisted with the founding of the University of Melbourne and acted as the first Chancellor of the University. Barry also was a founding member in establishing the State Library of Victoria.

During his judicious career, Sir Redmond Barry was most famous trial was that of Ned Kelly in 1880, resulting in Kelly being hanged. After a very short illness he died in East Melbourne on 23 November 1880, only twelve days after the execution of Ned Kelly.

Specifications:

Condition: Good

Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Year: 1980

Format: Paper back

Pages: 45

ISBN: 0522842143

$15.00

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