BARRINGTON, JOHN SHUTE, 1ST V1SCOUNT (1678-1734)

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BARRINGTON, JOHN SHUTE, 1ST V1SCOUNT (1678-1734) , English lawyer and theologian, was the son of Benjamin Shute, merchant, and was born at Theobalds, in

Hertfordshire

HERTFORDSHIRE [HERrs]

, in 1678. He received part of his education at the university of Utrecht; and, after returning to England in 1698, studied law in the Inner Temple. In 1701 he published several pamphlets in favour of the civil rights of

Protestant

PROTESTANT

dissenters, to which class he belonged. On the recommendation of Lord Somers he was employed to induce the Presbyterians in

Scotland

to favour the union of the two kingdoms, and in 1708 he was rewarded for this service by being appointed to the office of

commissioner

COMMISSIONER

of the customs. From this, however, he was removed on the

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. 冠 urmu', to bend)

of administration in 1711; but his fortune had, in the meantime, been improved by the bequest of two considerable estates,one of them left him by Francis Barrington of Tofts, whose name he assumed by act of

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

, the other by John Wildman of Becket. Barrington now stood at the head of the dissenters. On the accession of George I. he was returned to

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

for Berwick-upon-Tweed; and in 1720 the king raised him to the Irish peerage, with the title of Viscount Barrington of Ardglass. But having unfortunately engaged in the Harburg lottery, one of the bubble speculations of the time, he was expelled from the

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Commons in 1723,a

punishment

PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

which was considered much too severe, and was thought to be due to personal malice of Walpole. In 1725 he published his principal

work

WORK

, entitled Miscellanea Sacra or a New Method of considering so much of the History of the A postles as is contained in Scripture, 2 vols. 8vo,-afterwards reprinted with additions and corrections, in 3 vols. 8vo, 1770, by his son Shute. In the same year he published An Essay on the Several Dispensations of God to Mankind. He died on the 14th of December 1734.

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