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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 1103

Baronet’s Badge, of the United Kingdom, neck Badge in silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Barton of Fethard 1918’, hallmarks for London 1929, good very fine, with length of neck riband and in a Thomas Fattorini case

Dunbar Plunket Barton was born on 29 October 1853 at Merrion Square, Dublin. Educated at Harrow and Corpus Christi, Oxford, Barton was called to the Irish Bar in 1880, to the English Bar in 1893 and took silk in 1898. He served as an Irish Unionist Member of Parliament for Mid Armagh from 1891-1900 and was Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1898–1900. Appointed to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland in 1900 he transferred to the Chancery Division and retired in 1918, being appointed baronet of Fethard (County Tipperary) on 28 January 1918.

Away from the court rooms, he was a keen golfer and is said to have done much in popularising the sport in Ireland. Besides being President of the Golfing Union of Ireland and of the Royal Dublin Golf Club, Royal Portrush Golf Club, and Greenore Golf Club, he presented the Tyrone Cup in 1891, which remains one of the oldest competitions in Ireland.

Barton died at Gray's Inn, London on 11 September 1937, with the title becoming extinct on account of his son having pre-deceased him.

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Sold for
£850

Starting price
£420