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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VISCOUNT WILLIAM WILDMAN SHUTE BARRINGTON (1717-1793)  , eldest son of the 1st Viscount Barrington, was born on the 15th of
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January 1717 . Succeeding to the title in 1734, he spent some time in travel, and in March 1740 was returned to parliament as member for Berwick-upon-
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Tweed . Having taken his seat in the Irish House of Lords in 1745, he was appointed one of the lords commissioners of the admiralty in 1746, and was one of the " managers " of the impeachment of Simon, Lord Lovat . In 1754 he became member of parliament for Plymouth, in 1755 was made a privy councillor and secretary at war, and in 1761 was transferred to the office of chancellor of the
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exchequer . In 1762 he became treasurer of the
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navy, and in 1765 returned to his former position of secretary at war . He retained this office until December 1778, and during four months in 1782 was joint postmaster-general . He married in 1740 Mary, daughter of Mr Henry Lovell, but
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left no children . He died at Becket on the 1st of
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February 1793, and was buried in Shrivenham church . See Shute Barrington .
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Political
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Life of William Wildman, Viscount Barrington (
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London, 1814) .

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