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 432 COMPLETE PEERAGE barrington BARRINGTON OF ARDGLASS, AND BARRINGTON OF NEWCASTLE VISCOUNTCY [I.] I. John Barrington, of Beclcet, in the parish of RAKONTY n 1 Shrivenham, Berks., formerly John Shute, being 3rd '- ■-' and yst. s. of Benjamin ShutEjC) by Elizabeth, da. of I. 1720. the Rev. Joseph Caryl, was (J-, in 1678, at Theobald's, Herts; ed. at Utrecht. He became a Barrister of the Inner Temple, London ; was Commissioner of the Customs, 1708 to 171 1 ; inherited in 1 7 10 the estate of Beclcet,and considerable property in Berkshire, by devise of John Wildman, of Becket afsd., and soon afterwards inherited the estate of Tofts, in Little Baddow, Essex, by settlement of Francis Barrington, Merchant, whose wife, Elizabeth, (by whom he had no issue), was Shute's cousin german, being da. of his uncle, Samuel Shute. C") By Act of Pari. 1716, he took the name of Barrington. He was M.P. (Whig) for Berwick upon Tweed, 171 5 until expelled the House of Commons, 15 Feb. 1722/3, for having promoted "an infamous fraudulent project, " the lottery of Harbourg. (") On 5 July 17 17 he had the reversion of the office of iVIaster of the Rolls [I.], which, however, he surrendered 10 Dec. 1731. On i July 1720 was cr. BARON BARR- INGTON OF NEWCASTLE, co. Limerick, and VISCOUNT BARR- INGTON OF ARDGLASS, CO. Down [I.]- (') He m., 23 June 1713, at St. Benet's, Paul's Wharf, (settl. dat. 26 June 1713) Anne, da. and coh. of Sir William Daines, sometime Mayor of, and M.P. for, Bristol. He d. at Becket, 14, and was bur. 27 Dec. 1734, at Shrivenham, in his 56th year.C) Will dat. 2 Mar. 1726, pr. 13 June 1738. His widow d. 8 Feb. 1763. Admon. 10 Mar. 1763. (") This Benjamin was " yst. s. of Francis Shute of Upton, co. Leicester, Esq., who was descended from Robert Shute of Hockington, co. Cambridge, one of the twelve Judges in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. " See M.I. to the ist Viscount Barrington in Lodge, vol. v, p. 203. C*) He was no relation to either of his benefactors, of whom (i) J. Wildman adopted him more Romano as " most worthy, " though, it seems, after " one fortnight's acquaintance. " (Le Neve's Mem.) (2) F.Barrington adopted him as being a cousin of his wife, devising to him the estate of the ancient family of Barrington, though he had no descent whatever therefrom. C) Notwithstanding this disgrace he was (according to Lodge) a person of great judgment and learning, being the author " of divers pamphlets in favour of such as dissent from the established church. " C) See Lodge, vol. v, p. 202, where the preamble of the patent of Peerage is given. C) He is described by Swift, in 1708, as " the shrewdest head in England." Horace Walpole writes of him to the Rev. Mr. Cole, 18 Sep. 1778, "I believe was a very dirty fellow, for besides being expelled the H. of C. on the affair of the lottery, he was reckoned to have twice sold tiie dissenters to the Court. " V.G.