Dunbar Plunket Barton
1st Baronet
(1853–1937)

Biographical

1st Baronet 1918–37†
Privy Councillor, Ireland 1918
Judge of the Chancery Division, Ireland, 1904–18
Judge of the King's Bench Division, Ireland, 1900–04
Solicitor-General for Ireland 1898–1900
MP for Mid-Armanagh 1891–1900
Queen's Counsel for Ireland 1889
Justice of the Peace for Dublin, Armagh and Tipperary

Of Fethard, Tipperary, Barton was called to the Bar at King's Inns in 1880 and served as a bencher there from 1885 to 1891. He entered politics while continuing his legal career, becoming a barrister at Gray's Inn in 1893 and a bencher the same year, later serving as treasurer and resident bencher from 1922. He also held a number of other public offices, including Commissioner of Irish Lights. Barton retired in 1918. He was also an author.

Son of Thomas Barton and Hon Charlotte Plunket, he married Mary Manly, †1928, in 1900, and had issue:
• Dunbar Patrick, 1901–29҂