What position did Redmond Barry take from 1880 to 1881?
Redmond Barry Sir Redmond Barry , ( 7 June 181323 November 1880 ) , was a colonial judge in Victoria , Australia of Anglo-Irish origins . Barry was the inaugural Chancellor of the University of Melbourne , serving from 1853 until his death in 1880 . He is arguably best known for having sentenced Ned Kelly to death . Early life . Barry was the third son of Major-General Henry Green Barry , of Ballyclough , Kilworth , County Cork , Ireland , and his wife Phoebe Drought , daughter of John Armstrong Drought and Letita Head . Barry had five brothers and six sisters and was educated at a military school , Hall Place , near Bexley , in Kent . Returning to Ireland in 1829 , he was unable to obtain a military commission so began his own further education . Following his own classics programme , translating classical authors into English verse , reading old and new writers , he gained a working knowledge of nearly every subject . In 1832 , he entered Trinity College , Dublin , graduated in 1835 with the usual Bachelor of Arts degree , and was called to the bar in Dublin in 1838 . After his fathers death , Barry sailed for Sydney , capital of the British Colony of New South Wales . Life and work in Australia . Barry arrived in New South Wales in April 1837 and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar . After two years in Sydney , Barry moved to Melbourne , a city with which he was ever afterwards closely identified , arriving at the new Port Phillip Settlement on 13 November 1839 . In 1841 , Barry served as the defence lawyer for Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner , two indigenous rebels on trial for murder . Barry questioned the legal basis of British authority over Aborigines who were not citizens and claimed that the evidence was dubious and circumstantial . Despite his best efforts , the two men were found guilty and subsequently hanged on 20 January 1842 , becoming the first people in Victoria to be legally executed . After practising his profession for some years , he became commissioner of the Court of Requests , and after the creation in 1851 of the colony of Victoria , out of the Port Phillip district of New South Wales , he became the first Solicitor-General of Victoria , with a seat in both the Legislative and Executive Councils . In 1852 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria . Later he also served as acting Chief Justice and Administrator of the government . Barry was noted for his service to the community , and he convinced the state government to spend money on public works , particularly on education . He was instrumental in the foundation of the Royal Melbourne Hospital ( 1848 ) , the University of Melbourne ( 1853 ) , and the State Library of Victoria ( 1854 ) . He served as the first chancellor of the university until his death and was also president of the trustees of the State Library . He was the first President of the Ballarat School of Mines ( 1870 ) , which later became the Ballarat University and now Federation University Australia . Barry was the judge in the Eureka Stockade treason trials in the Supreme Court in 1855 . The thirteen miners were all acquitted . In 1857 , Barry conducted the inquest into the murder of Inspector-General John Giles Price , who was beaten to death by a group of at least 15 convicts during an inspection of the prison quarries in Williamstown , Victoria . Seven of the convicts involved in the attack on Price were found guilty , and sentenced to death by hanging . The seven men were executed at Melbourne Gaol within a three-day period from 28 to 30 April . He chaired the committee for the Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne , represented Victoria at the London International Exhibition of 1862 and at the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876 . He was made a knight bachelor in 1860 , and was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George ( KCMG ) in 1877 . Kelly cases . In October 1878 , at Beechworth court , Barry presided over a case in which Mrs Ellen Kelly ( King ) and two men were accused of aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a Victoria Police constable named Alexander Fitzpatrick . After sentencing Mrs Kelly to three years with hard labour , Barry said , if your son Ned were here I would make an example of him for the whole of Australia – I would give him fifteen years . In 1880 , Barry presided at the final trial of Ned Kelly , who was tried and convicted of murdering three other Victoria Police constables . The trial and sentencing have since been the subject of many articles and books by lawyers and historians . When he sentenced Kelly to death by hanging , Barry uttered the customary words May God have mercy on your soul . According to the transcripts , Kelly replied I will go a little further than that , and say I will see you there when I go . On 23 November 1880 , only twelve days after Kellys execution , Sir Redmond Barry died from what the doctors described as congestion of the lungs and a carbuncle in the neck . Contribution to libraries . Barry laid the foundations of the Supreme Court Library ( Melbourne ) and was the prime mover establishing the Melbourne Public Library . As a legislator he promoted the Parliamentary Library . He organised the Governor , Sir Charles Hotham , to lay the foundation stones of University of Melbourne , Melbourne Public Library and Sunbury Industrial School [ later Sunbury Lunatic Asylum ] in 1854 – all on the same day . Sir Redmond Barry virtually single-handedly planned the Melbourne Public Library building and its contents . He had a hands-on approach personally writing book selection and acquisition procedures – even to getting his hands dirty shelving books for the Librarys 1856 opening . In 1862 and 1877-78 he went to Europe , England and America , purchasing books and pictures for University , Law and Public Libraries and Art Gallery . As Board of Trustees Chairman he was responsible for starting travelling libraries and supporting extended library hours . In September 1870 he acquired Marcus Clarke as Public Library Trustees clerk ( later secretary ) , who until his death in 1881 worked as sub-librarian . There can be fewer men with greater concern for and a greater and better vision for the young colonial society in which Redmond Barry made his life . Books and reading were intrinsic to Barrys own educational and intellectual development so he wanted these advantages for other people . The reason for his support of the Melbourne Public Library , the Law Library and his support of Mechanic Institutes was free access to libraries for all not just a select few . Personal life . Barry never married , but had four children to Louisa Barrow , all of whom he acknowledged and supported . in August 1841 , he was involved in a duel with pastoralist , Peter Snodgrass , whose pistol discharged prematurely . Barry then discharged his own pistol harmlessly into the air . Death . The Argus reported Sir Redmond Barry had been suffering from diabetes for about 10 years , but on his return from his trip to Europe and America it was apparent that the disease had affected his system . On Monday , 15 November , he was first troubled with the carbuncle on his neck . Sir Redmond was counselled by his medical adviser to at once rest from duty , but he was reluctant to do so , and continued to attend the court until he was compelled to take rest . He was constantly attended by Dr . Gunst , who however , could scarcely impress his patient with a sense of the very serious nature of his disease , which he regarded somewhat lightly . He became restless , and it was deemed advisable to place him under the constant care of a nurse . Despite the precautions , Barry caught cold through exposure , and congestion of the left lung set in . Dr . Gunst held a consultation with Dr . Teague , and pronounced the case hopeless . The left lung had become greatly congested , and this , together with the exhaustion and wasting away of the system resulting from the previous disease , proved fatal . Memorials and legacy . The State Library of Victoria has named a reading room after Sir Redmond Barry , who was the first Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library . The University of Melbourne of which he was the first Chancellor has a Redmond Barry building named for him . A plaque marking the location of Sir Redmond Barrys residence is located near the corner of Josephine Avenue and High Street Road in Mount Waverley . The University of Melbourne has also established the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor , a title awarded to professors within the university who display outstanding research and leadership . The Australian Library and Information Associations highest honour that can be bestowed on an individual not eligible for membership of the association is the Redmond Barry Award , awarded in recognition of outstanding service to or promotion of a library and information service or libraries and information services , or to the theory or practice of library and information science , or an associated field . Portrayals in film . Barry has appeared as a character in three dramatizations of the Ned Kelly story : He appears in Tony Richardsons 1970 biopic about the bushranger , played by acting veteran Frank Thring . He has a prominent role in the 1977 television drama The Trial of Ned Kelly , where he was played by John Frawley . And he appeared in the 1980 miniseries The Last Outlaw , played by David Clendinning . Barry is also a minor character in Philippe Moras bushranging biopic Mad Dog Morgan , where he is played by Peter Collingwood .