Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet

"a temperate Ulster man"
Corry as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, May 1887

Sir James Porter Corry, 1st Baronet (8 September 1826 – 28 November 1891) was an Irish politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1874 to 1891 and an Irish Unionist Alliance MP until his death.

Sir James was the son of Robert Corry, of Turnagardy (Tullinagardy/Tullynagardy), Newtownards, County Down, a quarry owner and Belfast timber merchant. Educated at the Royal Belfast Academic Institution, he entered the family timber firm, which was at that time occupied with building the growing industrial port of Belfast.

He was first elected to Parliament for the Irish constituency of Belfast in the 1874 general election. The constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election. On 15 September 1885 he was created a baronet, of Dunraven, Antrim.^[1]

On 1 February 1886 he became the MP for Mid Armagh in a by-election following the death of John McKane. In July 1891, he joined the Irish Unionist Alliance. He died, in office, in November at his home, Dunraven on Belfast's Malone Road, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, William.

Arms

Coat of arms of Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet

Notes Granted 8 September 1885 by Sir John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. Crest A cock Proper charged on the breast with a trefoil slipped Vert. Escutcheon Gules a saltire engrailed Argent between in chief a rose of the last barbed and seeded Proper in fess two thistles slipped also Proper and in base a trefoil slipped Or. Motto Vigilans Et Audax[2]

References

1. "No. 25511". The London Gazette. 15 September 1885. p. 4334.
2. "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. H". National Library of Ireland. 1880. p. 120.

• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Corry

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas McClure and William Johnston	Member of Parliament for Belfast 1874 – 1885 With: William Johnston (until 1878) William Ewart (1878–1885)	Constituency abolished
Preceded by John McKane	Member of Parliament for Mid Armagh 1886 – 1891	Succeeded by Dunbar Plunket Barton
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Dunraven) 1885–1891	Succeeded by William Corry