Editing J. M. Barrie (section)

==Honours==
=== Personal ===
Barrie was created a [[baronet]] by King [[George V]] in 1913. He was made a member of the [[Order of Merit (Commonwealth)|Order of Merit]] in 1922.

In 1919, he was elected [[Rector of the University of St Andrews]] for a three-year term. In 1922, he delivered his celebrated Rectorial Address on Courage at St Andrews, and visited [[University of Dundee|University College Dundee]] with [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Earl Haig]] to open its new playing fields, with Barrie bowling a few balls to Haig.<ref name=Dundee>{{cite web|last=Baxter|first=Kenneth|title=J M Barrie and Rudyard Kipling|url=http://www.archives-records-artefacts.blogspot.com/2011/03/j-m-barrie-and-rudyard-kipling.html|work=Archives Records and Artefacts at the University of Dundee|date=29 March 2011|publisher=[[University of Dundee]]|access-date=16 September 2016}}</ref> He served as [[Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh]] from 1930 to 1937.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=q3tQAAAAIBAJ&pg=4640%2C3428839 |title=New Chancellor. Installation of James Barrie |work=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |date=24 October 1930 |page=13 |access-date=20 February 2018}}</ref>

Barrie was the only person to receive the Freedom of Kirriemuir in a ceremony on 7 June 1930 in [[Kirriemuir Town Hall]] where he was presented with a silver casket containing the freedom scroll. The casket was made by silversmiths Brook & Son in Edinburgh in 1929 and is decorated with images of sites in Kirriemuir which held significant memories for Barrie: Kirriemuir Townhouse, Strathview, Window in Thrums, the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and the Barrie Cricket Pavilion. The casket is on display in the Kirrimuir Gateway to the Glens Museum in the [[Kirriemuir Town House]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/jm-barrie-silver-casket-on-show-in-kirriemuir-1-3090030 |title=JM Barrie silver casket on show in Kirriemuir|newspaper=The Scotsman|date= 12 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207020214/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/jm-barrie-silver-casket-on-show-in-kirriemuir-1-3090030 |archive-date=7 February 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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|image = Barrie Achievement.png
|escutcheon = Barry of six Argent and Gules in chief a lion passant guardant counterchanged and issuant from the base reeds Proper.
|crest = An open book amid reeds all Proper.
|motto = Amour De La Bonte (Love of Goodness)<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1915 |page=193}}</ref>}}

===Legacy===
*The [[Sir James Barrie Primary School]] in [[Wandsworth]], [[South West (London sub region)|South West London]] is named after him.
*[[The Barrie School]] in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]], is also named in his honour.<ref>{{cite web|author=Carnival PR and Design |url=http://www.barrie.org/ |title=The Barrie School |publisher=Barrie.org |access-date=22 July 2009}}</ref>