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BARRINGTON, See also:WILLIAM See also:WILDMAN SHUTE, 2ND See also:VISCOUNT (1717-1793) , eldest son of the 1st Viscount Barrington, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:January 1717. Succeeding to the See also:title in 1734, he spent some See also:time in travel, and in See also:March 1740 was returned to See also:parliament as member for See also:Berwick-upon-See also:Tweed. Having taken his seat in the Irish See also:House of Lords in 1745, he was appointed one of the lords commissioners of the See also:admiralty in 1746, and was one of the " managers " of the See also:impeachment of See also:Simon, See also:Lord See also:Lovat. In 1754 he became member of parliament for See also:Plymouth, in 1755 was made a privy councillor and secretary at See also:war, and in 1761 was transferred to the See also:office of See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer. In 1762 he became treasurer of the See also:navy, and in 1765 returned to his former position of secretary at war. He retained this office until See also:December 1778, and during four months in 1782 was See also:joint postmaster-See also:general. He married in 1740 See also:Mary, daughter of Mr See also:Henry See also:Lovell, but See also:left no See also:children. He died at See also:Becket on the 1st of See also:February 1793, and was buried in Shrivenham See also:church. See Shute Barrington. See also:Political See also:Life of William Wildman, Viscount Barrington (See also:London, 1814).

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