William Keppel Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington (6 October 1793 – 9 February 1867), styled The Honourable from 1814 until 1829, was a British businessman and politician.
Early life
Born in London on 6 October 1793, Barrington was the eldest son of fifteen children born to the Reverend
George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington, by his wife Elizabeth, second daughter of Robert Adair and Lady Caroline Keppel (the second daughter of
Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
Lieutenant-General Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (5 June 1702 – 22 December 1754) was a British Army officer, diplomat, courtier and colonial administrator. He held various roles in the household of George II of Great Britain, ...
),
a descendant of
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond
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.
Like his father, he was educated at
Westminster School
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and
Christ Church, Oxford
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, where he graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts
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in 1814.
Career
Barrington succeeded in the viscountcy on the death of his father in 1829. However, as this was a title in the
Peerage of Ireland
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, it did not entitle him to a seat in the
House of Lords
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. In 1837 he was instead elected to the
House of Commons
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as one of three representatives for
Berkshire
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, a seat he held until 1857. He was also Chairman of the
Great Western Railway
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between 1856 and 1857.
Personal life
On 21 April 1823, Lord Barrington married the Hon. Jane Elizabeth Liddell (1804–1883),
fourth daughter of
Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth and the former Maria Susannah Simpson (daughter and co-heiress of John Simpson of
Bradley Hall and Lady Anne Lyon, the second daughter of
Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore (1704 – 18 January 1753) was a Scottish nobleman, and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1735, when he resigned upon succeeding to the peerage as Earl of Strathmore.
Lyon was ba ...
).
[ His wife served as a ]Lady of the Bedchamber
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to the Dowager Queen Adelaide. They lived at Beckett Hall
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History
This manor is first mentioned in the Domesday survey, and was acquired ...
, Shrivenham
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, Berkshire which he had built in 1830–1831.John Morritt
John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (1772? – 1843) was an English traveller, politician and classical scholar.
Early life
Born about 1772, he was son and heir of John Sawrey Morritt, who died at Rokeby Park in Yorkshire on 3 August 1791, by his wife A ...
of Rokeby Park
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.
* Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington
Percy Barrington, 8th Viscount Barrington (22 April 1825 – 29 April 1901), was a British soldier and landowner.
Early life
Barrington was born in London on 22 April 1825. He was the second son of William Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington, ...
(1825–1901), who married Louisa Higgins, daughter of Tully Higgins.
* Hon. Charlotte Maria Barrington (–1854), who married her third cousin Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (28 September 1822 – 13 September 1865), styled Lord Glamis between 1834 and 1846, was a Scottish peer and cricketer.
Background
Lyon-Bowes was the eldest surviving son of Thomas ...
, in 1850.
* Hon. Mary Frances Barrington (d. 1913), who married Alfred Urban Sartoris of Abbotswood House in Lower Swell, in 1856.
* Hon. Caroline Susan Augusta Barrington (1834–1915), who married James Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton in 1856.
* Hon. Augusta Anne Barrington (1836–1915), who married the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. William Dalrymple Maclagan, Archbishop of York
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, in 1878.
* Hon. Sir William Augustus Curzon Barrington (1842–1922), a diplomat.
* Hon. Sir Bernard Eric Edward Barrington (1847–1918), a civil servant who married Christina Graham, daughter of William Graham.
* Hon. Adelaide Barrington (d. 1862), who married, as his first wife, Charles Balfour, second son of James Balfour and Lady Eleanor Maitland (a daughter of James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale) in 1860.
Lord Barrington died at Shrivenham in February 1867, aged 73, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his eldest son, George. He was buried in St. Andrews Church, Shrivenham. Lady Barrington died 22 March 1883, aged 78.
Descendants
Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of three girls: Hon. Constance Mary Barrington (1847–1926), who married Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baron Haldon, Hon. Evelyn Laura Barrington (1848–1924), who married George Craven, 3rd Earl of Craven, and Hon. Florence Isabel Barrington, a Sister of the Community of St Mary the Virgin
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.
Through his daughter Adelaide, he was a grandfather of Charles Barrington Balfour (a first cousin of Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (; 25 July 184819 March 1930) was a British statesman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As Foreign Secretary ...
, who served as Prime Minister
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from 1902 to 1905), an army officer and MP for Hornsey
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who later served as the Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire
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List of officeholders
* Alexander Home, 10th Earl of Home 17 March 1794 – 20 October 1841
* James Maitland, 9th Earl of Lauderdale 2 November 1841 – 22 August 1860
...
. He married Lady Helena McDonnell, daughter of Alexander MacDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim.
References
External links
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William Keppel Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington
at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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