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(2), Simon Luttrell of Luttrellstown (3), Sir Robert 

 Deane, bart. (4), and the Bishop of Waterford (Dr. 

 Richard Chevenix, Lord Chesterfield's friend) had now 

 become members. The two last-named were constant 

 in their attendance, and frequently presided at the 

 meetings. 



1. Anthony Foster, chief baron, from whom the magni- 

 ficent avenue opening off Stillorgan road, Dublin, is named, 

 built the mansion known as Merville, which stands in the 

 angle formed by the main road and the avenue. The 

 Chief Baron was a friend of Mrs. Delany, and formed one 

 of the brilliant circle in which she moved. " He was one 

 of the first persons of position in Ireland to interest himself 

 in a practical manner in the improvement of agriculture and 

 the development of Irish industries." * Arthur Young 

 visited him at Collon, co. Louth, where his operations " as 

 a prince of improvers " exceeded anything Young could 

 have imagined. He helped in amending the laws as to the 

 linen manufacture. Foster had been m.p. for Dunleer, 

 and afterwards for the county of Louth, and was father of 

 the last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. 



2. Dr. Constantine Barbor, sch. Trin. Coll. Dub. 1732, 

 was King's Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in 

 1749, and in 1754 President of the College of Physicians, 

 an office to which he was again elected in 1764 and I7°9« 

 He also became physician to the Blue Coat Hospital, in 

 succession to Dr. Richard Weld, on the death of the latter 

 in 1755. Barbor died in 1783. In a poem descriptive of 

 the Medical Faculty in Dublin published by John Gilborne, 

 m.d., in 1755, the following lines are devoted to him : — 



" Wise Barbor can prolong the days of youth, 

 By maxims founded on undoubted Truth : 

 With pharmaceutic art he plainly shows 

 How to prepare, preserve, compound and chuse 

 Drugs and materials medical, that will 

 All indications curative fulfil." 



1 History of Co. Dublin, F. E. Ball, ii. 78. 



