5 Or More further Children Shute (later Barrington)
- Yes, date unknown
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. 5 Or More further Children Shute (later Barrington) (child of John (1st Viscount Barrington) Shute (later Barrington) and Anne Daines); and died. Notes:
Lord Barrington married Anne, daughter of Sir William Daines, in 1713. Their five sons all gained distinction.
William, the eldest, became Chancellor of the Exchequer;
John was a Major-General in the British Army;
Daines was a lawyer, antiquarian and naturalist;
Samuel was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy;
Shute became Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham.[2]
Their daughter Anne married the Hon. Thomas Clarges, son of Sir Thomas Clarges.
2. John (1st Viscount Barrington) Shute (later Barrington) was born in 1678 in Theobalds House, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire (son of Benjamin Shute); died on 14 Dec 1734; was buried in Shrivenham, Berkshire, England. Notes:
His fortune improved by the bequest of two considerable estates'97one of them left him by Francis Barrington of Tofts, whose name he assumed by act of parliament, the other by John Wildman of Beckett Hall at Shrivenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).
On the accession of George I he was returned to parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed; and in 1720 the king raised him to the Irish peerage as Baron Barrington, of Newcastle in the County of Limerick, and Viscount Barrington, of Ardglass in the County of Down. But having unfortunately engaged in the Harburg lottery, one of the bubble speculations of the time, he was expelled from the House of Commons in 1723? a punishment which was considered much too severe, and was thought to be due to personal malice of Walpole.John married Anne Daines in 1713. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Anne Daines (daughter of Sir William Daines, MP and Elizabeth Swymmer). Children:
- 1. 5 Or More further Children Shute (later Barrington) and died.
- William Wildman Shute (2nd Viscount) Barrington was born on 5 Jan 1717; died on 1 Feb 1793.
Generation: 3
4. Benjamin Shute Notes:
A merchant
Children:
- 2. John (1st Viscount Barrington) Shute (later Barrington) was born in 1678 in Theobalds House, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire; died on 14 Dec 1734; was buried in Shrivenham, Berkshire, England.
6. Sir William Daines, MP Notes:
Sir William Daines, MP from 1701 to 1710, was the son of a plantation owner in Virginia, in the southern states of America
William + Elizabeth Swymmer. Elizabeth (daughter of William Swymmer and Elizabeth) was born about 1656; died on 5 Sep 1724 in Bath, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Elizabeth Swymmer was born about 1656 (daughter of William Swymmer and Elizabeth); died on 5 Sep 1724 in Bath, Somerset, England. Notes:
A prominent Bristol merchant, trading to Virginia and Maryland,3 Daines was re-elected for Bristol as a Whig after a contest in 1715, voting with the Administration. In April 1719 he claimed that it had cost him above ?10,000 to represent Bristol. Retiring in 1722 owing to failing health, he died 5 Sept. 1724 at Bath, aged 68, leaving ?10,000 to the children of his two daughters, one of whom married the 1st Lord Barrington
Children:
Generation: 4
14. William Swymmer was born about 1630 (son of Anthony Swymmer and Joan Hayman); was buried on 6 Feb 1715 in St Augstine's, Bristol, England. William + Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. Elizabeth Children:
- John Swymmer died in 1700.
- 7. Elizabeth Swymmer was born about 1656; died on 5 Sep 1724 in Bath, Somerset, England.