BARRINGTON, SHUTE (1734-1826), youngest son of the 1st Viscount Barrington (q.v.), educated at Eton and Oxford, be came successively bishop of Llandaff in 1769, Salisbury in 1782, Durham in 1791. He was a Protestant who was willing to grant Catholics "every degree of toleration short of political power," but he was most generous and kind to the emigrant French bishops and clergy. He was the last but one of the so-called Prince Bishops of Durham, and as such was Count Palatine and custos rotulorum, with almost royal jurisdiction and precedence, and he well sup ported the dignity of his station. He died on March 25, 1826.