Editing Shute Barrington

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{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Reverend]]
| name             = Shute Barrington
| title            = [[Bishop of Durham]]
| image            = Shute Barrington by Lawrence.jpg
| image_size   =
| alt              = A portrait of a middle-aged white man, enrobed as a bishop and as the chancellor of the Order of the Garter.
| caption          = Portrait by [[Thomas Lawrence]]
| diocese          = [[Diocese of Durham]]
| term             = 1791–1826
| predecessor      = [[Thomas Thurlow (bishop)|Thomas Thurlow]]
| successor        = [[William Van Mildert]]
| other_post       = [[Bishop of Salisbury]] & ''ex officio'' Chancellor of the [[Order of the Garter|Garter]] (1782–1791)<br />[[Bishop of Llandaff]] (1769–1782)
<!---------- Orders ---------->
| ordination = 1756 (deacon)
| consecration = 1769
<!---------- Personal details ---------->
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|df=y|1734|5|26}}
| birth_place      = [[Beckett Hall]], Berkshire,<!--as it was then--> Great Britain
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|df=y|1826|3|25|1734|5|26}}
| death_place      = [[Soho]], [[Middlesex]],<!--as it was then--> United Kingdom
| buried           = [[St John the Baptist's Church, Mongewell]]
| nationality      = British
| religion         = [[Anglicanism]]
| residence        = Mongewell Park, Oxfordshire (personal)
| parents          = [[John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington|John]] &amp; Anne
| spouse           = 1. Diana (m. 1761–1766)<br />2. Jane (m. 1770–1807)
| education        = [[Eton College]]
| alma_mater       = [[Merton College, Oxford]]
}}
[[File:Memorial to Rev Shute Barrington, Durham Cathedral.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Rev Shute Barrington, Durham Cathedral]]
[[File:Castle of Durham 02.JPG|thumb|[[Durham Castle]]. Left: arms of the See of Durham; right: ''Argent three chevronels gules a label of three points azure'', arms of Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham]]
'''Shute Barrington''' (26 May 1734{{snd}}25 March 1826) was an English churchman, [[Bishop of Llandaff]] in Wales, as well as [[Bishop of Salisbury]] and [[Bishop of Durham]] in England.

==Early life==
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]].

==Church career==
Barrington was ordained a deacon by [[Thomas Secker]], [[Bishop of Oxford]], on 28 November 1756 at [[St Aldate's Church]], [[Oxford]];<ref>{{CCEd |type=ordination |id=140361 |name=Barrington, Shute |accessed=4 September 2014 }}</ref> 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 Cathedral|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 Llandaff]]; his [[Canonical election|election]] was [[Confirmation of bishops|confirmed]] on 23 September<ref>{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=275357 |name=Barrington, Shute |location=Llandaff |accessed=4 September 2014 }}</ref> 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]].)<ref>{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=275358 |name=Barrington, Shute |location=Llandaff |accessed=4 September 2014 }}</ref> He was elected on 14 August 1782 to become [[Bishop of Salisbury]],<ref>{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=301084 |name=Barrington, Shute |location=Salisbury |accessed=4 September 2014 }}</ref> and was translated to that see upon the confirmation of that election on 27 August at [[St Mary le Bow]].<ref>{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=307994 |name=Barrington, Shute |location=Salisbury |accessed=4 September 2014 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=330702 |name=Barrington, Shute |location=Durham |accessed=4 September 2014 }}</ref>

Barrington was a vigorous [[Protestant]], though willing to grant [[Roman Catholic]]s "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, 2nd Viscount Barrington|William Barrington]]. From 1805 to 1826 he was the Visitor of [[Balliol College, Oxford]] and in 1806 backed the then Master, [[John Parsons (bishop)|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 Academy]], 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.

Barrington was also a primary litigant in [[Morice v Bishop of Durham|''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 (1779-1849)|Thomas Moody]], who named one of his sons, Shute Barrington Moody (b. 1818), after Shute Barrington.<ref name="Shute Barrington correspondence">{{cite web|title=Correspondence with Major Moody, of Barrington, Shute (1734 – 1826, Bishop of Durham|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13994364}}</ref>

He died in [[Soho]] in [[Middlesex]] (now [[Greater London]]). He is buried at [[St John the Baptist's Church, Mongewell|St John the Baptist's Church]], near his home at Mongewell Park, close to [[Wallingford, Oxfordshire]].

==Memorials==

A fine marble monument was erected to Barrington's memory in [[Durham Cathedral]] sculpted by [[Francis Chantrey]].<ref>Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis</ref>

==Marriages==
Barrington married firstly, on 2 February 1761, the Lady Diana Beauclerk (c. 1735–28 March 1766), daughter of [[Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans]]. His wife died in childbirth, the child stillborn. He married secondly, on 20 June 1770, Jane Guise (d. 8 August 1807), daughter of Sir John Guise, but had no children. 

==Styles and titles==
*1734–1756: ''[[The Honourable]]'' Shute Barrington
*1756–1761: ''[[The Reverend]] and Honourable'' Shute Barrington
*1761–1769: ''The Reverend and Honourable'' Canon Shute Barrington
*1769–1826: ''[[The Right Reverend]] and Honourable'' Shute Barrington

==References==
{{Commons category|Shute Barrington}}
*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Barrington, Shute}}
*{{DNB|wstitle=Barrington, Shute|}}
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