Alfred Barry

Assistant Bishop of London
Orders
Ordination	1850 (as deacon) by Thomas Turton 1853 (as priest) by Samuel Wilberforce
Consecration	1 January 1884 by Edward White Benson
Personal details
Born	(1826-01-15)15 January 1826 Ely Place, Holborn, London
Died	1 April 1910(1910-04-01) (aged 84) Windsor
Buried	Worcester Cathedral
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Sir Charles Barry Sarah Rowsell
Spouse	Louisa Victoria Hughes ​ ​ (m. 1851)​
Children	4
Education	King's College School
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
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Alfred Barry (15 January 1826 – 1 April 1910) was the third

Alfred Earle, suffragan Bishop of Marlborough, was often in ill-health during this period, and Barry (whose parish was within Marlborough's area) frequently deputised for him; when Earle resigned his responsibilities for West London in June 1900, Barry took these up (but not the See of Marlborough).^[10] Barry himself then resigned those responsibilities (for the rural deaneries of Westminster, Hampton, and Uxbridge) on medical advice in February 1903 and retired to the cloisters at Windsor Castle.^[11] He died at Windsor and his body lies in the cloisters of Worcester Cathedral. He was survived by his wife Louisa Victoria, daughter of Canon Hughes of Peterborough, whom he had married on 13 August 1851, and by two sons and a daughter. Another daughter, Mary Louisa (1862–1880) died young and was buried beneath the cloisters of his burial place.

Brief history

• Sub-warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, from 1849 to 1854.
• Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School from 1854 to 1862.
• Headmaster of Cheltenham College from 1862 to 1868.
• Principal of
  King's College, London
  , from 1868 to 1883.
• Member of the Metaphysical Society.
• Residentiary canon of Worcester in 1871, and of Westminster in 1881.
• Honorary chaplain to the Queen in 1875.
• third
  Bishop of Sydney
  1884–1889.
• Founded St Andrew's Cathedral School, Sydney, 1885. The Bishop Barry Centre (BBC) was opened in July 1991 in Druitt St, Sydney and dedicated to his contributions in founding the school.
• Founded Sydney Church of England Grammar School, Sydney, 1889.
• Assistant bishop in the Diocese of Rochester
  , 1889 to 1891.
• Windsor
  1891 to death.
• Rector of St James, Piccadilly, 1895 to 1900.
• Assistant bishop in West London from 1897 to death:^[12][13]
  • deputising in West London for the Bishop of Marlborough, 1897–1900
  • responsible for West London, 1900–1903

Sermons & other writings

• Lectures on Christianity and Socialism (London, 1890)
• He had written a well-informed biography of his father in 1867 and defended his designs for the Palace of Westminster against the supporters of Augustus Welby Pugin in 1868.
• In 1881 he edited the architectural lectures of his eldest brother, Edward Middleton.
• As late as 1908 he published four lectures for St George's Chapel entitled Do we Believe?
• Published Introduction to the Old Testament, Notes on the Gospels; Notes on the Catechism; The Teacher's Prayer Book as well as various volumes of Sermons. Contributed to Smith's Dictionary of the Bible.

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