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John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington
English theologian and politician (1678 – 1734) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (1678 – 14 December 1734), 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.
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