Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet

Sir James Porter Corry, 1st Baronet (8 September 1826 – 28 November 1891) was an Irish politician.

Sir James was the son of Robert Corry, of Turnagardy (Tullinagardy/Tullynagardy), Newtownards, County Down, a quarry owner and Belfast timber merchant.

[1] On 1 February 1886 he became the MP for Mid Armagh in a by-election following the death of John McKane.

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.

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