Viscount Barrington
Viscount Barrington , of Ardglass in the County of Down , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Ireland .
Award and subordinate titles
The title was created on July 1, 1720 by King George I for John Barrington from the English lawyers and MPs . Along with the Viscount title he was given the subordinate title Baron Barrington , of Newcastle in the County of Limerick.
His great-grandson, the 7th Viscount, was also awarded the title of Baron Shute , of Becket in the County of Berkshire, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on April 17, 1880 , with the special addition that he had no male offspring of his own to his brother Percy Barrington and his male descendants. Since the 7th Viscount remained childless, his brother inherited all three titles as the 8th Viscount.
The titles finally expired when his great-grandson, the 11th Viscount, died childless on April 6, 1990.
List of Viscounts Barrington (1720)
- John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (1678-1734)
- William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington (1717–1793)
- William Barrington, 3rd Viscount Barrington (1761-1801)
- Richard Barrington, 4th Viscount Barrington († 1814)
- George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington (1761–1829)
- William Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington (1793–1867)
- George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington (1824–1886)
- Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington (1825-1901)
- Walter Barrington, 9th Viscount Barrington (1848–1933)
- William Barrington, 10th Viscount Barrington (1873-1960)
- Patrick Barrington, 11th Viscount Barrington (1908–1990)
Web links
- Barrington, Viscount (I, 1720-1990) at Cracroft's Peerage