John Bere

Sir John Bere (died 1617), whose surname was also spelt Beere or Bare, was an Irish politician, Crown official, barrister and part-time judge of the early seventeenth century.

Little is known of his family, although it is possible that Thomas Beere, who is listed as a member of the King's Inns in 1614, was a relative of John.

[4] He was one of the trustees to whom the legal title to the Inns was passed by Sir John Davies, the Attorney-General for Ireland, under a deed of 1612.

[2] In the only Irish Parliament (1613–15) called in the reign of James I of England, Bere was one of the two MPs returned for the borough of Carlow, the other being his fellow Law Officer, Sir Robert Jacobe, the Solicitor-General for Ireland.

He also became a burgess of Carlow under the new royal charter granted to the town in 1613, which provided for a corporation of twelve.