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1ST V1SCOUNT JOHN SHUTE BARRINGTON (1...

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JOHN SHUTE See also:BARRINGTON (1678-1734)  , See also:English lawyer and theologian, was the son of See also:Benjamin Shute, See also:merchant, and was See also:born at Theobalds, in See also:Hertfordshire, in 1678 . He received See also:part of his See also:education at the university of See also:Utrecht; and, after returning to See also:England in 1698, studied See also:law in the Inner See also:Temple . In 1701 he published several See also:pamphlets in favour of the See also:civil rights of See also:Protestant dissenters, to which class he belonged . On the recommendation of See also:Lord See also:Somers he was employed to induce the Presbyterians in See also:Scotland to favour the See also:union of the two kingdoms, and in 1708 he was rewarded for this service by being appointed to the See also:office of See also:commissioner of the customs . From this, however, he was removed on the See also:change of See also:administration in 1711; but his See also:fortune had, in the meantime, been improved by the See also:bequest of two considerable estates,—one of them See also:left him by See also:Francis See also:Barrington of Tofts, whose name he assumed by See also:act of See also:parliament, the other by See also:John See also:Wildman of See also:Becket . Barrington now stood at the See also:head of the dissenters . On the See also:accession of See also:George I. he was returned to parliament for See also:Berwick-upon-See also:Tweed; and in 1720 the See also:king raised him to the Irish See also:peerage, with the See also:title of See also:Viscount Barrington of See also:Ardglass . But having unfortunately engaged in the See also:Harburg lottery, one of the bubble speculations of the See also:time, he was expelled from the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1723,—a See also:punishment which was considered much too severe, and was thought to be due to See also:personal malice of See also:Walpole . In 1725 he published his See also:principal See also:work, entitled Miscellanea Sacra or a New Method of considering so much of the See also: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 See also:year he published An See also:Essay on the Several Dispensations of See also:God to Mankind .

He died on the 14th of See also:

December 1734 .

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