George Barrington (Royal Navy officer)
{{Short description|British naval officer and politician (1794–1835)}}
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Captain George Barrington (20 November 1794 – 2 January 1835){{Rayment-hc|s|6|date=March 2012}} was a Royal Navy officer and Whig politician.
Career
Barrington served in the Royal Navy becoming Fourth Naval Lord in 1830.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16652 Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty] British History on Line He was elected at the 1832 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for Sunderland,{{cite book
|last=Craig
|first=F. W. S.
|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig
|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885
|origyear=1977
|edition= 2nd
|year=1989
|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services
|location=Chichester
|isbn= 0-900178-26-4
|page=295
}} but resigned his seat in 1833 through the procedural device of appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.{{London Gazette
|issue= 19037
|date=9 April 1833
|page=690
}}
Family
In 1827 he married Lady Caroline Grey, daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey; they had a son and a daughter.Townend, Peter. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition. London, U.K.: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1970.
References
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External links
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Category:Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies
Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies