Editing Isaac Barré (section)

==Early life==
Barré was born in Dublin on 15 October 1726, the son of Marie Madelaine (Raboteau) Barré and Peter Barré, [[Huguenot]] refugees who escaped to Ireland.<ref>{{cite book |date=1901 |title=The Publications of the Huguenot Society of London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=619FAQAAMAAJ&q=%22isaac+barr%C3%A9%22 |location=London, UK |publisher=The Huguenot Society of London |page=77}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Elliott |first=Hugh F. (''Macmillan's Magazine'') |date=6 January 1877 |title=Colonel Barre and His Times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TKU2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA22 |magazine=Littell's Living Age |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Littell & Gay |page=22 |ref={{sfnRef|"Colonel Barre and His Times"}}}}</ref> Peter Barré became a [[linen]] dealer and served as [[High Sheriff of Dublin City]].<ref>[http://www.godrules.net/library/smiles/95smiles4.htm Distinguished Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants]</ref> Isaac Barré was educated at [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College]], and graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1745.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Burtchaell |editor-first1=George Dames |editor-last2=Sadleir |editor-first2=Thomas Ulick |date=1935 |title=Alumni Dublinenses: A Register of the Students, Graduates, Professors and Provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860) |url=https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/70795b624 |location=Dublin, Ireland |publisher=Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd. |page=42 |via=Digital Collections: The Library of Trinity College Dublin}}</ref> His parents hoped he would study law, and [[David Garrick]] thought he had potential as an actor and offered to hire and train him, but Barré decided on a military career and entered the British Army in 1746.{{sfn|"Colonel Barre and His Times"|page=22}}