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See also:BARRINGTON, See also:JOHN SHUTE, 1ST V1SCOUNT (1678-1734) , See also:English lawyer and theologian, was the son of See also:Benjamin Shute, See also:merchant, and was See also:born at Theobalds, in See also:Hertfordshire, in 1678. He received See also:part of his See also:education at the university of See also:Utrecht; and, after returning to See also:England in 1698, studied See also:law in the Inner See also:Temple. In 1701 he published several See also:pamphlets in favour of the See also:civil rights of See also:Protestant dissenters, to which class he belonged. On the recommendation of See also:Lord See also:Somers he was employed to induce the Presbyterians in See also:Scotland to favour the See also:union of the two kingdoms, and in 1708 he was rewarded for this service by being appointed to the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:commissioner of the customs. From this, however, he was removed on the See also:change of See also:administration in 1711; but his See also:fortune had, in the meantime, been improved by the See also:bequest of two considerable estates,—one of them See also:left him by See also:Francis Barrington of Tofts, whose name he assumed by See also:act of See also:parliament, the other by John See also:Wildman of See also:Becket. Barrington now stood at the See also:head of the dissenters. On the See also:accession of See also:George I. he was returned to parliament for See also:Berwick-upon-See also:Tweed; and in 1720 the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king raised him to the Irish See also:peerage, with the See also:title of See also:Viscount Barrington of See also:Ardglass. But having unfortunately engaged in the See also:Harburg lottery, one of the bubble speculations of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, he was expelled from the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1723,—a See also:punishment which was considered much too severe, and was thought to be due to See also:personal malice of See also:Walpole. In 1725 he published his See also:principal See also:work, entitled Miscellanea Sacra or a New Method of considering so much of the See also:History of the A postles as is contained in Scripture, 2 vols. 8vo,-afterwards reprinted with additions and corrections, in 3 vols. 8vo, 1770, by his son Shute. In the same See also:year he published An See also:Essay on the Several Dispensations of See also:God to Mankind.
He died on the 14th of See also:December 1734.
End of Article: BARRINGTON, JOHN SHUTE, 1ST V1SCOUNT (1678-1734)
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