BARRINGTON, ]DAINES English lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist, fourth son of the first Viscount Barring ton, was appointed a Welsh judge in 1757 and afterwards second justice of Chester. Though an indifferent judge. his Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st James I., cap. 27, with an appendix, being a proposal for new-modelling the Statutes (1766), had a high reputation among historians and constitutional antiquaries. Many of his other works are included in a volume of Miscellanies on Various Sub jects (1781) .