[2][3] A very active personality in everything related to the prosperity of San Sebastián, he was the founder and first president of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation.

[5] Barrié appears in what is regarded to be the oldest photograph of a football team in Spain, which depicts these two sides before the match at Can Tunis.

[12] On 11 September 1909, together with Luis de Uhagón of Madrid; Satrústegui Barrié and Rich of San Sebastian; Arthur Witty and Manuel Tey of Barcelona; Romero of Zaragoza, and Faulcombridge of Valencia, he founded the Lawn-Tennis Association of Spain, which would become the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation in 1940.

[2] He even covered travel expenses for Spanish players to the United States from his own pocket, with his greatest interest being in taking Spain to the Davis Cup, something he achieved in 1921.

[2][3] In 1915, Barrié was a Maurist provincial deputy representing the Patriotic Union for Gipuzkoa, being elected for the district of San Sebastián in May 1915, which was renewed in 1919.

[2] Barrié was a person of multiple activities, being the president of the Villabona Paper Mill and an advisor of both the Tram Company and of the Electra Irún-Endar.

[2] Barrié married Eugenia Petit de Merville in Ciboure, with whom he had seven children,[2][1][6] several of them good tennis players who would participate in the National Championship.

[3][13] On 26 September 2009, the representatives of the Federation were received by the mayor of San Sebastián as part of the centenary events, in which a tribute was paid to Jorge de Satrústegui Barrié.