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1ST V1SCOUNT

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

He died on the 14th of

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December 1734 .

End of Article: 1ST V1SCOUNT JOHN SHUTE BARRINGTON (1678-1734)
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