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SAMUEL BARRINGTON (1729-1800)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL BARRINGTON (1729-1800)  ,
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British
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admiral, was the
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fourth son of the 1st Viscount Barrington . He entered the
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navy at an early age and in 1747 had worked his way to a
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post-captaincy . He was in continuous employment during the peace of 1748-1756, and on the outbreak of the Seven Years' War served with Hawke in the Basque roads in command of the " Achilles " ‘6o) . In 1759 the " Achilles " captured a powerful French
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privateer, after two hours' fighting . In the Havre-de-Grace expedition of the same
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year Barrington's
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ship carried the flag of
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Rear-Admiral Rodney, and in 176o sailed with John Byron to destroy the
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Louisburg fortifications . At the peace in 1763 Barrington had been almost continuously afloat for twenty-two years . He was next appointed in 1768 to the
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frigate "
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Venus " as governor to the duke of Cumberland, who remained with him in all ranks from
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midshipman to rear-admiral . In 1778 the-BA RISTER 43 duke's flag-captain became
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tear-admiral and weiit to the West Indies, while in conjunction With the army he took the island of
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Santa Lucia from the French, and tepulsed the attempt of the Comte d'Estaing to' retake it . Superseded after a time by Byron, he remained as that officer's second-in-command and was
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present at
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Grenada and St . Kitts (6th and 22nd of
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July 1779) . On his return home, he was offered, but refused, the command of the Channel
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fleet . His last active service was the
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relief of
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Gibraltar in
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October 1782 .

As admiral he flew his flag for a

short time in 1790, but was not employed in the French revolutionary
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wars . He died in 'Soo . See Ralfe,
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Naval
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Biographies, i . 120; Charnock, Biographia Navalis, vi. to .

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