Daines Barrington 1727-1800

Paternal Family Tree: Shute aka Barrington

On 23rd June 1713 [his father] John Shute aka Barrington 1st Viscount Barrington [aged 35] and [his mother] Anne Daines Viscountess Barrington [aged 23] were married.

In 1727 Daines Barrington was born to John Shute aka Barrington 1st Viscount Barrington [aged 49] and Anne Daines Viscountess Barrington [aged 37].

On 14th December 1734 [his father] John Shute aka Barrington 1st Viscount Barrington [aged 56] died. His son [his brother] William [aged 17] succeeded 2nd Viscount Barrington of Ardglass in County Down, 2nd Viscount Barrington of Ardglass in County Down.

On 2nd February 1761 [his brother] Bishop Shute Barrington [aged 26] and [his sister-in-law] Diana Beauclerk [aged 15] were married. She the daughter of Charles Beauclerk 2nd Duke St Albans and Lucy Werden Duchess St Albans.

On 1st October 1769 [his brother] Bishop Shute Barrington [aged 35] was consecrated as Bishop of Llandaff at Lambeth Palace [Map] by Archbishop Frederick Cornwallis [aged 56].

Archaeologia Volume 4 Section VIII. Observations on Kit's Cotty House [Map], in Kent. In a Letter to the Honourable Daines Barrington [aged 47], from the Reverend Mr Pegge [aged 69]. Read at the Society of Antiquaries, Jan. 13, 1774.

Archaeologia Volume 3 Section XLIII. In the year 1770, our worthy and truly respectable member the Honourable Daines Barrington [aged 47], whose incessant literary pursuits are confessedly employed for the emolument as well as the edification of the public, stated to the Society the above circumstances, together with his sentiments thereon. At the same time, he expressed his ardent wishies, that the corpse of Edward the First, as entombed in the collegiate church of St. Peter at Westminster, might be inspected, in order to examine the state of preservation in which it then was; and whether any remains of the composition, supposed to have been used to prevent its decay, were discoverabled. His zeal for obtaining such inspection did not however rest satisfied with having barely propounded his wishes to the Society, he frequently applied to the Reverend Dr. John Thomas [aged 62], the dean of Westminstere by means of his learned friend Dr. Blair, one of the prebendaries of that church, for leave to open the royal tomb.

Note d. In three letters read at the Society of Antiquaries on the 25th of January, and 1st of February, 1770.

Note e. Now bishop of Rochester.

On 14th August 1782 [his brother] Bishop Shute Barrington [aged 48] was elected Bishop of Salisbury.

On 8th February 1783 [his mother] Anne Daines Viscountess Barrington [aged 93] died.

Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses

Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.

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Archaeologia Volume 8 Appendix. The Hon. Daines Barrington [aged 58] communicated the following observations by him on the Grey Weathers in Berkshire, and the Crypts in Canterbury Cathedral. Read March 17, 17 85.

On 14th March 1800 Daines Barrington [aged 73] died.

Ancestors of Daines Barrington 1727-1800

Daines Barrington

Grandfather: William Daines

mother: Anne Daines Viscountess Barrington