Up for auction a RARE! "Bishop of Durham" Shute Barrington Hand Written Album Page Dated 1824.
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Shute
Barrington (26 May
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 Llandaff;
his election was confirmed on 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.