John Barrington, Lord Mayor Dublin 1865 and 1879
Barrington family of Glenvar and Fassaroe
Edward Barrington married Sarah Leadbetter
born 2 Oct 1796 14 Mar 1822 born circa 1798
12 Oct 1877 Ballitore 7 Dec 1843 (45)
Fassaroe Fassaroe
Edward Barrington born 2 Oct 1796 son of John and Margaret Barrington. He married Sarah
Leadbeater on 14 Mar 1822 at Ballitore Meeting House. Sarah was the daughter of William
Leadbeater and Mary Shackleton the poet and author of the Annals of Ballitore and the Leadbeater
Papers. Sarah died 7 Dec 1843 at Faddaroe and was and was buried at Cork Street burial Ground.
1 Margaret Barrington, born 2 March 1823 and of Glendruid married Thomas Davis
14 Mar 1872 at Monkstown Meeting House. Thomas died 14 Jun 1898 at Bray and
Margaret died 25 June 1912 at St Margaret’s (Cornelscourt House), Foxrock and was
buried at Temple Hill.
2 John Barrington, eldest son born 6 Sep 1824 to Edward Barrington and Sarah
Leadbeater married Elizabeth Pim, second daughter of Jonathan Pim and Elizabeth
Goff of Bloomsbury at Monkstown Meeting House on 22 Mar 1848. He was a
director of J Barrington and Sons, soap manufacturers and tallow merchants, in
Great Britain Street. He was a town councillor, a member of the RHS and a member of
the RDS. He lived at Glenvar from 1862 and moved to Belville on Rochestown Avenue in
1866 to 1869 and to Laughton (St Anne's) in 1872. He was a director of the Dublin
Commercial Gas Company in 1864 and a director of th Mining Company of Ireland. He
was the first Quaker Lord Mayor of Dublin and he served twice firstly in 1865 and
secondly in 1879. He was created Knight Bachelor of the United Kingdom in 1868. He
died on 2 May 1887 at Santa Severina (Summerhill), Killiney and was buried at Temple
Hill. Elizabeth died 28 Aug 1900 and was buried at Temple Hill.
1 Edward Barrington, eldest son born 17 January 1849 at 45 Rutland Square.
2 Jonathan Pim Barrington, born 5 February 1851 in Dublin was a soap maker and
director J Barrington & Sons. He married Mary Thomas Greaterex on 16 Dec 1884
at Christchurch, Hampshire. They were living in Malahide in 1901 and at
Morehampton Road, Donnybrook in 1911. Jonathan died 13 May 1924 at 12
Morehampton Road and was buried at Temple Hill.
1 Gwendoline Mary Barrington born 22 Nov 1885 at Fir Grove, Ballybrack
worked as a VAD during WW1.
2 Enid Irene Barrington born 27 May 1887 at Fir Grove, Ballybrack married
Rupert McComas of 12 Elgin Road and son of Richard Henry Archibald
McCormas at St Bartholomew's on Clyde Road on 16 Dec 1914.
3 Elizabeth Olga Barrington born 5 Oct 1890 at Highfield House, Rathgar
married Manliffe Unsworth Manly of Aberdeen House, Clyde Road and son
of Joshua Carroll Manly at St Bartholomew's on 20 Dec 1915.
4 Margaret Sylvia Barrington born 31 Aug 1893 at Highfield House, Rathgar.
5 Henry Gordon Barrington born 31 May 1895 at Highfield House, Rathgar
served during WW1.
3 John Henry Barrington, born 30 November 1854 living at Campanella, Killiney
with his sister Sarah in 1901 and 1911. He died a bachelor at Campanella
on 21 Apr 1926.
4 Eliza Barrington married Robert Goodbody, son of Jonathan Goodbody of Clara
at Monkstown Meeting house on 16 Nov 1875.
5 Sarah Barrington, younger daughter born 20 September 1857 lived with her
brother John. She died a spinster at Campanella, Killiney on 26 May 1952.
3 William Leadbeater Barrington second son born 20 Jan 1826 at 186 Great Britain Street
graduated BA Trinity. He was the founder of the Dublin Tramways Company, for the
construction of Tramways introduced into Dublin and was the proprietor and editor of
Saunders’ News-Letter, the oldest newspaper in Ireland. He was Vice Consul of the United
States at Dublin and at the time of the great Chicago fire was instrumental in raising a
large sum to relieve the distress of the city. He married Caroline Catharine Starks at Ross,
Ohio and they had 14 children. He died 15 March 1903 at 2118 Connecticut Avenue and was
buried at Oak Hill Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, two daughter and nine sons.
4 Edward Ebenezer Barrington, born 20 July 1827 married Anna Maria Allen daughter of
Anthony Pierce Allen at the East Assembly Room in Bray on 7 Apr 1885. He was a medical
doctor and died 15 Sep 1904 at St Remo House, Bray.
5 Richard Manliffe Barrington, fourth son born 29 Mar 1829 died 23 May 1847.
6 Philip Sidney Barrington, born 11 June 1830 married Elizabeth Shackleton 31 May 1860 at
Ballitore. He died 1 July 1913 and was buried at Glendruid.
7 Mary Jane Barrington, second daughter born 13 December 1831 married Thomas Henry
White. Mary died 4 Feb 1906 at Orange Hill, Tandragee and was buried at Moyallen.
Thomas died in 1911,
8 Selina Barrington third daughter born 26 February 1833 Robert Fennell, a bleacher of
Banbridge, Co Down and son of Robert Fennell a farmer on 16 Oct 1861 at Monkstown
Meeting House. Selina ffennell died a widow at St Margaret’s (Cornelscourt House), Foxrock
on 18 Jun 1917. She wrote a memoir on her father based on his diaries.
1 Charlie ffennell died 19 Sep 1882 aged 18.
9 Charles Barrington, sixth son and ninth child born 5 Oct 1834. He was a mountaineer and
a horseman. He was the first climber to reach the summit of the Eiger in August 1858. His
experience was written in the form of a letter to his brother Richard and was published in
the Alpine Journal of London some 24 years after the event. He was living at 45 Rutland
Square when he married Louisa Grubb, daughter of Samuel Grubb, a merchant, of Maryville,
Cashel, and his wife Deborah Davis of Waterford on the 22 Mar 1860 at Clogheen in
Tipperary. (His father's name was incorrectly entered in the register as John.) In 1870 he
owned and trained the race horse Sir Robert Peel that won the first Irish Grand National.
That same year he donated a gold watch as a winners price for a race up the Sugarloaf.
In September 1879, he sailed on board the Cunard Steamer Algeria to New York as part of
the Irish Cricket team. He sent regular telegrams to his brother John, the Lord Mayor
updating him on their progress. He died 20 April 1901 at 18 Earlsfort Terrace and was buried
at Mount Jerome.
1 Son Barrington born 2 Jul 1861 at 45 Rutland Square, West.
2 Manliffe Barrington married Lydia Barrington, daughter of the late Erasmus
Barrington, of Maryville, Fermoy on 20 Sep 1894 at St Mathias' Church, Dublin.
3 Cecil Vivian Barrington born 17 Sep 1865 at 45 Rutland Square, West.
10 Lydia Sarah Barrington, born circa 1836, died unmarried 29 Jan 1864 aged 28 at Fassaroe
from consumption and was buried at Glendruid.
11 Erasmus Barrington born 30 Mar 1839 married Jane Kearns Deane Bennett daughter of
William Colburne Bennett on 6 Apr 1864 at Holy Trinity Church Cork. Erasmus of Maryville,
Kilworth Co Cork died 9 March 1874 from injuries sustained in a fall from his horse in the
hunting field. He was buried at Glendruid. Jane died 9 Apr 1913 aged 70 at Easton Lodge,
Monkstown.
1 William Bennett Barrington born 6 Jul 1868 died 2 Nov 1928.
2 Lydia Sarah Barrington married Manliffe Barrington, son of Charles Barrington
on 20 Sep 1894 at St Mathias Church, Dublin.
3 Eliza Bennett Bennett, second daughter born 16 Dec 1870 married Captain
Manders and died 2 Nov 1928.
Edward secondly married Huldah Strangman, daughter of the late Joshua and Anna Wakefield Strangman
on 25 Nov 1847 at Lisburn Meeting House. Edward was a DL and JP and died 12 Oct 1877 at Fassaroe.
Huldah died at Fassaroe 7 Oct 1895. Anna Wakefield Barrington, daughter present at death.
12 Anna Wakefield Barrington, fifth daughter born 28 Dec 1850 died 14 Jun 1902 at Glendruid.
13 Huldagh Isabel Barrington born circa 1853 died 28 Feb 1870 at Fassaroe aged 17.
14 Richard Manliffe Barrington eighth son born 22 May 1849 graduated Trinity 1870 and was
called to the bar in 1875. He procured a job as a land valuer for the encumbered courts. He
farmed at Fassaroe and won many awards for his livestock and produce. He had a interest in
botany and was also an Alpine climber scaling mountains including the Matterhorn in 1882.
From an early age he was interested in ornithology and in 1882 he undertook a project to plot
the migration of birds resulting in the publication of The Migration of birds, as observed at Irish
lighthouses and lightships including the original reports from 1888–97. He married Lena Louisa
Richards Gyles, daughter of George Gyles at St Peter’s Church on 26 Apr 1898. He died
15 Sep 1915 at Earlsfort Terrace. After his death his collection of stuffed births was donated to
the National History Museum.
1 Alison Innes Barrington eldest daughter born circa 1899 married Jamess F Byrne of
Beechlands, Shankhill and died 24 Oct 1925.
2 Richard Grey Barringto, eldest son born 11 May 1900 died 24 Sep 1901.
15 Amy Barrington, born 14 Feb 1857, attended Cambridge and studied classics. She was a
teacher and scientist and was associated with Sybil Gotto and with the practices and beliefs of
eugenics. She taught in Australia and was the author of many scientific papers on the hereditary
nature of alcoholism and dwarfism. She died a spinster 6 Jan 1942 at Harlech in Clonskeagh.
16 Marion Barrington, youngest daughter born circa 1859 was an accomplished horsewoman
and a regular winner at the Horse Show in Dublin. She died at Fassaroe on 26 Jun 1893
and was buried at Glendruid.
©June Bow & Karen Poff – August 2020
Edward Barrington married Sarah Leadbetter
born 2 Oct 1796 14 Mar 1822 born circa 1798
12 Oct 1877 Ballitore 7 Dec 1843 (45)
Fassaroe Fassaroe
Edward Barrington born 2 Oct 1796 son of John and Margaret Barrington. He married Sarah
Leadbeater on 14 Mar 1822 at Ballitore Meeting House. Sarah was the daughter of William
Leadbeater and Mary Shackleton the poet and author of the Annals of Ballitore and the Leadbeater
Papers. Sarah died 7 Dec 1843 at Faddaroe and was and was buried at Cork Street burial Ground.
1 Margaret Barrington, born 2 March 1823 and of Glendruid married Thomas Davis
14 Mar 1872 at Monkstown Meeting House. Thomas died 14 Jun 1898 at Bray and
Margaret died 25 June 1912 at St Margaret’s (Cornelscourt House), Foxrock and was
buried at Temple Hill.
2 John Barrington, eldest son born 6 Sep 1824 to Edward Barrington and Sarah
Leadbeater married Elizabeth Pim, second daughter of Jonathan Pim and Elizabeth
Goff of Bloomsbury at Monkstown Meeting House on 22 Mar 1848. He was a
director of J Barrington and Sons, soap manufacturers and tallow merchants, in
Great Britain Street. He was a town councillor, a member of the RHS and a member of
the RDS. He lived at Glenvar from 1862 and moved to Belville on Rochestown Avenue in
1866 to 1869 and to Laughton (St Anne's) in 1872. He was a director of the Dublin
Commercial Gas Company in 1864 and a director of th Mining Company of Ireland. He
was the first Quaker Lord Mayor of Dublin and he served twice firstly in 1865 and
secondly in 1879. He was created Knight Bachelor of the United Kingdom in 1868. He
died on 2 May 1887 at Santa Severina (Summerhill), Killiney and was buried at Temple
Hill. Elizabeth died 28 Aug 1900 and was buried at Temple Hill.
1 Edward Barrington, eldest son born 17 January 1849 at 45 Rutland Square.
2 Jonathan Pim Barrington, born 5 February 1851 in Dublin was a soap maker and
director J Barrington & Sons. He married Mary Thomas Greaterex on 16 Dec 1884
at Christchurch, Hampshire. They were living in Malahide in 1901 and at
Morehampton Road, Donnybrook in 1911. Jonathan died 13 May 1924 at 12
Morehampton Road and was buried at Temple Hill.
1 Gwendoline Mary Barrington born 22 Nov 1885 at Fir Grove, Ballybrack
worked as a VAD during WW1.
2 Enid Irene Barrington born 27 May 1887 at Fir Grove, Ballybrack married
Rupert McComas of 12 Elgin Road and son of Richard Henry Archibald
McCormas at St Bartholomew's on Clyde Road on 16 Dec 1914.
3 Elizabeth Olga Barrington born 5 Oct 1890 at Highfield House, Rathgar
married Manliffe Unsworth Manly of Aberdeen House, Clyde Road and son
of Joshua Carroll Manly at St Bartholomew's on 20 Dec 1915.
4 Margaret Sylvia Barrington born 31 Aug 1893 at Highfield House, Rathgar.
5 Henry Gordon Barrington born 31 May 1895 at Highfield House, Rathgar
served during WW1.
3 John Henry Barrington, born 30 November 1854 living at Campanella, Killiney
with his sister Sarah in 1901 and 1911. He died a bachelor at Campanella
on 21 Apr 1926.
4 Eliza Barrington married Robert Goodbody, son of Jonathan Goodbody of Clara
at Monkstown Meeting house on 16 Nov 1875.
5 Sarah Barrington, younger daughter born 20 September 1857 lived with her
brother John. She died a spinster at Campanella, Killiney on 26 May 1952.
3 William Leadbeater Barrington second son born 20 Jan 1826 at 186 Great Britain Street
graduated BA Trinity. He was the founder of the Dublin Tramways Company, for the
construction of Tramways introduced into Dublin and was the proprietor and editor of
Saunders’ News-Letter, the oldest newspaper in Ireland. He was Vice Consul of the United
States at Dublin and at the time of the great Chicago fire was instrumental in raising a
large sum to relieve the distress of the city. He married Caroline Catharine Starks at Ross,
Ohio and they had 14 children. He died 15 March 1903 at 2118 Connecticut Avenue and was
buried at Oak Hill Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, two daughter and nine sons.
4 Edward Ebenezer Barrington, born 20 July 1827 married Anna Maria Allen daughter of
Anthony Pierce Allen at the East Assembly Room in Bray on 7 Apr 1885. He was a medical
doctor and died 15 Sep 1904 at St Remo House, Bray.
5 Richard Manliffe Barrington, fourth son born 29 Mar 1829 died 23 May 1847.
6 Philip Sidney Barrington, born 11 June 1830 married Elizabeth Shackleton 31 May 1860 at
Ballitore. He died 1 July 1913 and was buried at Glendruid.
7 Mary Jane Barrington, second daughter born 13 December 1831 married Thomas Henry
White. Mary died 4 Feb 1906 at Orange Hill, Tandragee and was buried at Moyallen.
Thomas died in 1911,
8 Selina Barrington third daughter born 26 February 1833 Robert Fennell, a bleacher of
Banbridge, Co Down and son of Robert Fennell a farmer on 16 Oct 1861 at Monkstown
Meeting House. Selina ffennell died a widow at St Margaret’s (Cornelscourt House), Foxrock
on 18 Jun 1917. She wrote a memoir on her father based on his diaries.
1 Charlie ffennell died 19 Sep 1882 aged 18.
9 Charles Barrington, sixth son and ninth child born 5 Oct 1834. He was a mountaineer and
a horseman. He was the first climber to reach the summit of the Eiger in August 1858. His
experience was written in the form of a letter to his brother Richard and was published in
the Alpine Journal of London some 24 years after the event. He was living at 45 Rutland
Square when he married Louisa Grubb, daughter of Samuel Grubb, a merchant, of Maryville,
Cashel, and his wife Deborah Davis of Waterford on the 22 Mar 1860 at Clogheen in
Tipperary. (His father's name was incorrectly entered in the register as John.) In 1870 he
owned and trained the race horse Sir Robert Peel that won the first Irish Grand National.
That same year he donated a gold watch as a winners price for a race up the Sugarloaf.
In September 1879, he sailed on board the Cunard Steamer Algeria to New York as part of
the Irish Cricket team. He sent regular telegrams to his brother John, the Lord Mayor
updating him on their progress. He died 20 April 1901 at 18 Earlsfort Terrace and was buried
at Mount Jerome.
1 Son Barrington born 2 Jul 1861 at 45 Rutland Square, West.
2 Manliffe Barrington married Lydia Barrington, daughter of the late Erasmus
Barrington, of Maryville, Fermoy on 20 Sep 1894 at St Mathias' Church, Dublin.
3 Cecil Vivian Barrington born 17 Sep 1865 at 45 Rutland Square, West.
10 Lydia Sarah Barrington, born circa 1836, died unmarried 29 Jan 1864 aged 28 at Fassaroe
from consumption and was buried at Glendruid.
11 Erasmus Barrington born 30 Mar 1839 married Jane Kearns Deane Bennett daughter of
William Colburne Bennett on 6 Apr 1864 at Holy Trinity Church Cork. Erasmus of Maryville,
Kilworth Co Cork died 9 March 1874 from injuries sustained in a fall from his horse in the
hunting field. He was buried at Glendruid. Jane died 9 Apr 1913 aged 70 at Easton Lodge,
Monkstown.
1 William Bennett Barrington born 6 Jul 1868 died 2 Nov 1928.
2 Lydia Sarah Barrington married Manliffe Barrington, son of Charles Barrington
on 20 Sep 1894 at St Mathias Church, Dublin.
3 Eliza Bennett Bennett, second daughter born 16 Dec 1870 married Captain
Manders and died 2 Nov 1928.
Edward secondly married Huldah Strangman, daughter of the late Joshua and Anna Wakefield Strangman
on 25 Nov 1847 at Lisburn Meeting House. Edward was a DL and JP and died 12 Oct 1877 at Fassaroe.
Huldah died at Fassaroe 7 Oct 1895. Anna Wakefield Barrington, daughter present at death.
12 Anna Wakefield Barrington, fifth daughter born 28 Dec 1850 died 14 Jun 1902 at Glendruid.
13 Huldagh Isabel Barrington born circa 1853 died 28 Feb 1870 at Fassaroe aged 17.
14 Richard Manliffe Barrington eighth son born 22 May 1849 graduated Trinity 1870 and was
called to the bar in 1875. He procured a job as a land valuer for the encumbered courts. He
farmed at Fassaroe and won many awards for his livestock and produce. He had a interest in
botany and was also an Alpine climber scaling mountains including the Matterhorn in 1882.
From an early age he was interested in ornithology and in 1882 he undertook a project to plot
the migration of birds resulting in the publication of The Migration of birds, as observed at Irish
lighthouses and lightships including the original reports from 1888–97. He married Lena Louisa
Richards Gyles, daughter of George Gyles at St Peter’s Church on 26 Apr 1898. He died
15 Sep 1915 at Earlsfort Terrace. After his death his collection of stuffed births was donated to
the National History Museum.
1 Alison Innes Barrington eldest daughter born circa 1899 married Jamess F Byrne of
Beechlands, Shankhill and died 24 Oct 1925.
2 Richard Grey Barringto, eldest son born 11 May 1900 died 24 Sep 1901.
15 Amy Barrington, born 14 Feb 1857, attended Cambridge and studied classics. She was a
teacher and scientist and was associated with Sybil Gotto and with the practices and beliefs of
eugenics. She taught in Australia and was the author of many scientific papers on the hereditary
nature of alcoholism and dwarfism. She died a spinster 6 Jan 1942 at Harlech in Clonskeagh.
16 Marion Barrington, youngest daughter born circa 1859 was an accomplished horsewoman
and a regular winner at the Horse Show in Dublin. She died at Fassaroe on 26 Jun 1893
and was buried at Glendruid.
©June Bow & Karen Poff – August 2020