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See also:SAMUEL See also:BARRINGTON (1729-1800)
, See also:British See also:admiral, was the See also:fourth son of the 1st See also:Viscount See also:Barrington
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He entered the See also:navy at an See also:early See also:age and in 1747 had worked his way to a See also:post-captaincy
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He was in continuous employment during the See also:peace of 1748-1756, and on the outbreak of the Seven Years' See also:War served with See also:Hawke in the Basque roads in command of the " See also:Achilles " ‘6o)
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In 1759 the " Achilles " captured a powerful See also:French See also:privateer, after two See also:hours' fighting
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In the See also:Havre-de-See also:Grace expedition of the same See also:year Barrington's See also:ship carried the See also:flag of See also:Rear-Admiral See also:Rodney, and in 176o sailed with See also: As admiral he flew his flag for a See also:short time in 1790, but was not employed in the French revolutionary See also:wars . He died in 'Soo . See Ralfe, See also:Naval See also:Biographies, i . 120; See also:Charnock, Biographia Navalis, vi. to . |
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