Sir Francis Barry, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Tress Barry, 1st Baronet, DL (8 June 1825 – 28 February 1907) was an English businessman who made his fortune from a copper mine in Portugal.

Barry was born on 8 June 1825,[1] the eldest son of Charles Barry (1790–1866), of Orpington, Kent, a London ship broker and wharfinger, and his wife Harriet, daughter of Robert Ades, of Brede Place, Sussex.

[6] In the 1850s he was offered the post of consul in Madrid, but turned down the job to concentrate in his business interests.

He returned to England, where he joined with his brother-in-law James Mason to take a 50-year lease on the Sao Domingos copper mine in Portugal.

[6] In 1872 he purchased a country estate: St Leonard's Hill near Windsor, Berkshire, which he used to lend to the Prince of Wales during Royal Ascot.