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General First namePierse
LastnameBarron-Newell
GenderMale
CountryIreland
Date of birth1834-01-27
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of death1905-09-19
Place of deathKinghill, County Down, Ireland


About

From: Landed families of Ireland; Barron of County Waterford

Pierce Barron-Newell son of William Winston Barron (1805-91) and his wife Mary Frances St John, daughter and co-heir of Captain John Newell, Royal Navy, of King Hill (County Down), born 27 January and baptised at Saint Andrew’s Roman Catholic church, Dublin, 25 February 1834. Said to have been educated at Ushaw College and Trinity College, Dublin (though he does not appear in the Alumni volume). He took the additional name Newell before 1855.

Pierse Barron-Newell officer in the Waterford Artillery Militia (2nd Lieutenant., 1857; Lieutenant, 1858). In 1879 he was acting as agent to his cousin, Sir Henry P.-T. Barron; Justice of the Peace for Waterford; Guardian of the Waterford Poor Law Union and Governor of the Waterford District Lunatic Asylum. In middle age he was a competent lawn tennis player. He was apparently declared bankrupt on 21 April 1882, but nothing more is heard of this and he must have paid his debts and been discharged before the first scheduled hearing the following month. He married, 6 June 1867 at Rathkeale (County Limerick), Mary (1847-1924), second surviving daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John White of Belmont Castle and Nantenan (County Limerick), and had issue.

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Archive statistics Career1877 - 1880
Tournament wins0
Matches8
Match wins4


Tournaments Waterford - 1880 Waterford - 1879 Waterford - 1878 Waterford - 1877