BARRINGTON, SAMUEL (1729-1800), British admiral, son of the 1st Viscount Barrington. He entered the navy, and in 1747 had worked his way to a post-captaincy. On the outbreak of the Seven Years' War he served with Hawke in the Basque roads in command of the "Achilles." In the "Achilles" captured a powerful French privateer, in the Havre-de-Grace expedition of the same year carried the flag of Rear-Admiral Rodney, and in 176o sailed with John Byron to destroy the Louis burg fortifications. Barrington was next appointed in 1768 to the frigate "Venus" as governor to the duke of Cumberland. In 1778 he became rear-admiral and went to the West Indies, where he took the island of Santa Lucia from the French, and repulsed the attempt of the Comte d'Estaing to retake it. Superseded in 1779 by Byron, he refused the command of the Channel fleet offered him on his return home. He took part in the relief of Gibraltar in October 1782, and as admiral he flew his flag for a short time in i 790, but was not employed in the French revolu tionary wars. He died in i800.
See Ralfe, Naval Biographies, i. 120; Charnock, Biographia Navalis, vi. I o.