Patrick Barrington, 11th Viscount Barrington

Patrick William Daines Barrington, 11th Viscount Barrington (29 October 1908 – 6 April 1990), was an Irish peer and a writer of humorous verse.

Early life Known to his family as "Pip," he was the only son of the Hon. Walter Bernard Louis Barrington, a merchant banker (a partner of Sir Lawrence Jones, Bt), and Eleanor Nina Snagge.

He was educated at Eton College and at Magdalen College, Oxford University. "In his younger days, as Patrick Barrington, he was a poet, publisher and puppeteer of delightful wit and ingenuity." After the War, he worked in publishing becoming one of the early partners in Weidenfeld & Nicolson. to the titles of 5th Baron Shute of Becket, co. Berks; 11th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass, County Down; and 11th Baron Barrington of Newcastle, County Limerick.

In his later years, he "became a leading figure in the pro-life movement. He was a dedicated opponent of abortion legislation, and drafted the original aims and objects of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, of which he was chairman. He was also a founding member of the committee of the Human Rights Society, working to ensure that euthanasia did not reach the statute book."

Personal life Lord Barrington, who lived with his eldest niece Jane ( Alderson) Carter in Oaktree Close, Virginia Water, upon which his titles became extinct.