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"Bishop of Durham" Shute Barrington Hand Written Album Page Dated 1824:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Bishop of Durham" Shute Barrington Hand Written Album Page Dated 1824. 

1734 – 25 March 1826) was an English churchman, Bishop

of Llandaff in Wales, as well as Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham in England. Barrington was born at Beckett Hall in Shrivenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), the home of his father, John

Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington and mother, Anne née

Daines, and educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford. Barrington

was ordained a deacon by Thomas

Secker, Bishop of Oxford, on 28

November 1756 at St Aldate's Church, Oxford; he was presumably ordained a priest within a

year. In 1761 he was a made a canon of Christ Church, Oxford and

in 1768 a canon of St Paul's from where

he moved to be a canon at St George's Chapel,

Windsor. In 1769 he was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of 23

September and he was consecrated a bishop on 1 October

at Lambeth Palace chapel

by Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (assisted

by Richard Terrick, Bishop of London, and Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester.) He was elected on 14 August 1782 to

become Bishop of Salisbury, and

was translated to that see upon the confirmation of that election on 27 August

at St Mary le Bow. As Bishop

of Salisbury he was also ex officio Chancellor

of the Order of the Garter. He was further translated to be Bishop of

Durham following his election on 25 June 1791.Barrington was a

vigorous Protestant, though willing to grant Roman Catholics "every degree of toleration short of

political power and establishment." He published several volumes of

sermons and tracts, and wrote the political life of his elder brother, William Barrington. From

1805 to 1826 he was the Visitor of Balliol College, Oxford and

in 1806 backed the then Master, John Parsons, in opening

the Fellowships to competition. Barrington was a great patron of architecture

and education in the diocese of Durham. One school, Bishop Barrington School,

still exists today in Bishop Auckland. To mark his fiftieth year in the prelacy, the

diocese of Durham built the Clergy Jubilee School in Newcastle and arranged

that Dame Allan's Schools should be housed there. In

architecture he employed James Wyatt to remodel Salisbury Cathedral, as

well as the Georgian Gothic interiors of Auckland Castle, his favoured residence. One notably

uncharacteristic event in Barrington's life was his dispatch of troops on 1

January 1812 to break up a miners' strike at collieries owned by the Dean &

chapter of Durham Cathedral in nearby Chester-le-Street. At this time (and up until 1836), the

"Prince" Bishops of Durham still held vice-regal powers in the North

of England, which included the maintenance of a small private army, garrisoned

in Durham Castle. Barrington

was also a primary litigant in Morice v Bishop of Durham (1805)10 Ves 522, which is a leading case on the

conditions necessary to form a trust in English law.Barrington had an extensive

correspondence with Thomas Moody, who named

one of his sons, Shute Barrington Moody (b. 1818), after Shute Barrington.

He died in Soho in Middlesex (now Greater London). He is buried at St John the

Baptist's Church, near his home at Mongewell Park, close to Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

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