Richard Hugh Barry

Major-General Richard Hugh Barry, CB, CBE (9 November 1908 – 30 April 1999) was a British Army officer and a member of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War.

Barry was born in London, the only son and elder child of Army officer Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Percival Barry and Helen Charlotte, née Stephens.

His paternal great-grandfather was the architect Sir Charles Barry.

He was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry, his father's regiment, in 1929.

[1] After the war, Barry was posted to Stockholm as military attaché in 1946, before becoming Deputy Chief of Staff, Western Europe Land Forces in 1948.