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Sir Redmond Barry, KCMG QC (7 June 1813 – 23 November 1880), was a colonial judge in Victoria, Australia of Anglo-Irish origins. Barry was the inaugural Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, serving from 1853 until his death in 1880. He is arguably best known for having sentenced Ned Kelly to death.
23 de nov. de 2016 · Sir Redmond Barry (1813-1880), judge, was born on 7 June 1813 at Ballyclough, County Cork, Ireland, the third son of Major-General Henry Green Barry and his wife Phoebe, née Drought. Brought up an Anglican, he was educated first at 'Old Curtain's' private academy on the shores of Cork Harbour.
Learn about the life and achievements of Sir Redmond Barry, a prominent lawyer, judge and cultural leader in colonial Victoria. He founded the University of Melbourne, the State Library of Victoria and other institutions, and sentenced Ned Kelly to death.
Learn about the Irish-born lawyer and judge who presided over the Eureka Stockade and Ned Kelly trials, and founded the University of Melbourne and the State Library of Victoria.
23 de oct. de 2016 · Judge Sir Redmond Barry presided over the trial of Ned Kelly and sentenced the outlaw to death. Twelve days after Kelly was hanged, Barry himself died, of natural causes, as Kelly had predicted from the dock. For many people it was Barry, not Kelly, who became the villain of the piece.
Imagine if in 2013, 200 years after his birth, Redmond Barry had broken free of the bronze carapace of his statue at the library, and stepped down from its plinth and strolled around the city of Melbourne and its environs and re-visited country Victoria.
Sir Redmond Barry was the pre-eminent figure in Melbourne of the middle years of last century. A Supreme Court judge for thirty years, he was the founding and sustaining force...
