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Beckett Hall is a country house at Shrivenham in the English county of Oxfordshire. The present house dates from 1831.
The lake and the China House, c. 1967
Beckett Hall in 1967
John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington, known as John Shute until 1710, was an English dissenting theologian and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1723.
Beckett Hall
…ransacked by royalists. On the son's death, the lands were sold to Sir George Pratt. In 1666, John Wildman bought the property. Wildman's son adopted John Shute as his heir. In 1716, John Shute was bequeathed the Barrington name by Francis Barrington and inherited the Beckett estates. He was also the recipient…
Portrait, circle of John Michael Wright
Monument to John Barrington in St. Andrew's parish church, Shrivenham, in the Vale of White Horse.