BARRINGTON, WILLIAM WILDMAN SHUTE, 2ND VISCOUNT (I 717-1793 ) , eldest son of the 1st Viscount Barrington, was born on Jan. 15, 1717, and died at Becket on Feb. 1, 1793. He was returned to Parliament in March 174o as member for Berwick-upon-Tweed. In 1755 he was made a privy councillor and secretary at war, and in 1761 was appointed chancellor of the exchequer. In 1762 he became treasurer of the navy and in 2765 returned to his former position of secretary at war until Dec. 1778 ; during four months in 1782 he was joint postmaster general.
See Shute Barrington, Political Life of William Wildman, Viscount Barrington (1814).