1678 - 1734 (56 years)
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Name |
John (1st Viscount Barrington) Shute (later Barrington) |
Birth |
1678 |
Theobalds House, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
14 Dec 1734 |
Burial |
Shrivenham, Berkshire, England |
Person ID |
I81738 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
24 Jul 2017 |
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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.
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