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| | JOHN SHUTE, 1ST VISCOUNT BARRINGTON - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN SHUTE, 1ST VISCOUNT BARRINGTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | , 1ST VISCOUNT (1678-1734), English lawyer and theologian, was the son of Benjamin Shute, merchant, and was born at Theobalds, in Hertfordshire, in 1678. |
 | | From this, however, he was removed on the change of administratIon in 1711; but his fortune had, in the meantime, been improved by the bequest of two considerable estates,one of them left him by Francis Barrington of Tofts, whose name he assumed by act of parliament, the other by John Wildman of Becket. |
 | | But having unfortunately engaged in the Harburg lottery, one of the bubble speculations of the time, he was expelled from the House of Commons in 17 23, a punishment which was considered much too severe, and was thought to be due to personal malice of Walpole. |
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