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.
Portrait, circle of John Michael Wright
Monument to John Barrington in St. Andrew's parish church, Shrivenham, in the Vale of White Horse.
Beckett Hall
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Beckett Hall is a country house at Shrivenham in the English county of Oxfordshire. The present house dates from 1831.
John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington
…and then formally took by a private act of Parliament, Barrington's Name Act 1716 (3 Geo. 1. c. 8 Pr.); and the other by an admirer John Wildman of Beckett Hall at Shrivenham, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). Barrington was now one of the leading dissenters. At the 1715 general election Barrington was returned…
The lake and the China House, c. 1967
Beckett Hall in 1967