
Walter Bulkeley Barrington, 9th Viscount Barrington
JP,
DL (20 April 1848 – 12 September 1933), was a
peer of the United Kingdom.
Walter Barrington born on 20 April 1848 at
Tusmore, Oxfordshire, the son of
Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington, and Louisa Higgins. He was educated at
Eton College
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. He served in the Coldstream Guards and was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire.
In 1870, he married Mary Isabella Bogue (c. 1848 – 1903) with whom he had seven children, including
William Barrington, 10th Viscount Barrington. In 1905, he married Charlotte Stopford.
One of the Barrington family seats was
Beckett Hall
Beckett Hall (or Beckett House) is a country house at Shrivenham in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire). The present house dates from 1831.
History
This manor is first mentioned in the Domesday survey, and was acquired ...
,
Shrivenham
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, Berkshire (since 1974 in Oxfordshire). Charlotte endowed Shrivenham Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1925 by
Princess Beatrice
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, daughter of
Queen Victoria
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.
In 1911 he was one of the 112 peers who voted against the passing of the
Parliament Act 1911
The Parliament Act 1911 ( 1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 13) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is constitutionally important and partly governs the relationship between the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two Houses of Parl ...
.
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People educated at Eton College
1848 births
1933 deaths
Coldstream Guards officers
Deputy lieutenants of Berkshire
English justices of the peace
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