Person

Barry, Redmond (1813 - 1880)

Born
7 June 1813
Ballyclough, County Cork, Ireland
Died
1880
Occupation
Judge and Science patron

Summary

Redmond Barry was First Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria and inaugural president, Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science, 1854.

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President, Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science, 1854; vice-president of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, 1855. These institutions were the forerunners of the Royal Society of Victoria.

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Published resources

Books

  • Galbally, Ann, Redmond Barry: an Anglo-Irish Australian (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1995), 228 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Redmond Barry', Uni News, 11 (15), 4. Details
  • Hinchcliff, Carole, 'Redmond Barry and the University of Melbourne Library', University of Melbourne Collections, 24 (2019), 31-41. Details

Resources

See also

  • Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_b.html. Details
  • Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
  • Goad, Philip, 'Stolen stones and bare-faced brick' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. 50-66. https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
  • Jones, Ross L. ; Waghorne, James; and Langton, Marcia, 'Introduction' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: The Truth, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024), pp. xiii-xxix, https://www.mup.com.au/books/dhoombak-goobgoowana-paperback-softback. Details
  • Laidlaw, Zoë, 'Settler-colonial philanthropy and Indigenous dispossession' in Dhoombak goobgoowana: a history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Ross L. Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton, eds (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2024). Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

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