George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington

George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington (16 July 1761 – 4 March 1829), was a British minister and aristocrat.

Early life Barrington was born on 16 July 1761. and the former Elizabeth Vassal (a daughter of Florentius Vassall, a wealthy planter and slave-owner, and Mary Foster, a daughter of Col. John Foster of Jamaica). Among his siblings were older brothers William Barrington, 3rd Viscount Barrington, who died without issue, and Richard Barrington, 4th Viscount Barrington, who also died without issue.

His paternal grandparents were John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington, and Anne Daines (a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Daines MP, Mayor of Bristol). His uncle William served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and became the 2nd Viscount Barrington. Other uncles were Daines Barrington, a lawyer, antiquarian and naturalist; Rear-Admiral Samuel Barrington of the Royal Navy; and Shute Barrington who became Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham.

Career Barrington was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was admitted a King's Scholar in 1774. who married her brother's brother-in-law, Hon. Thomas Liddell, the second son of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, and Maria Simpson (daughter and co-heiress of John Simpson and Lady Anne Lyon, second daughter of the 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne), in 1843. Hon. Russell Barrington (1801–1835), who married Marion Lyon, the only daughter of John Lyon of Hetton House, in 1832. Hon. Charlotte Belasyse Barrington (d. 1873), who married the Rev. Henry Burton, Rector of Upton Cressett, in 1845. Rev. Hon. Lowther John Barrington (1805–1897), who married Lady Catherine Georgiana Pelham, the second daughter of Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester, and Lady Mary Osborne (eldest daughter of Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds), in 1837. Hon. Henry Frederick Francis Adair Barrington (1808–1882), a barrister-at-law who married Mary Georgiana Knox, daughter of Col. Wright Knox, in 1848. Hon. Frances Barrington (1802–1849), who married, as his second wife, William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, in 1828. Hon. Georgiana Christina Barrington (1810–1881), who married, as his second wife, James Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther of Hintlesham Hall, in 1847. From his first marriage, James was the father of Robert Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther and grandfather of Sir Fitzroy Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, Bt. Hon. Elizabeth Frances Barrington (1811–1886), He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, William.