Sir Jonah Barrington
(1760-1834)

memoir writer and Knight Bachelor (from 1807)

Died aged c. 74

Sir Jonah Barrington, K.C. (1756/57 – 8 April 1834), was an Irish lawyer, judge and politician. Jonah Barrington is most notable for his amusing and popular memoirs of life in late 18th-century Ireland; for his opposition to the Act of Union in 1800; and for his removal from the judiciary by both Houses of Parliament in 1830, still a unique event.

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Sir Jonah Barrington 1760 - 1834 memoir writer lived here

15 Harcourt St Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland where they lived