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    George Barrington (14 May 1755 – 27 December 1804) (real name Walden) was an Irish pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer (following...
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  • George Barrington (1755–1804) was an Irish pickpocket and later a policeman. George Barrington may also refer to: George Barrington (cricketer) (1857–1942)...
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    3rd Viscount Barrington (died 1801) Richard James Barrington, 4th Viscount Barrington (died 1814) George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington (1761–1829)...
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    George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington, PC (14 February 1824 – 6 November 1886), was a British Conservative politician. He held office under...
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    (1795) (also known as A Voyage to New South Wales), attributed to George Barrington (1755–1804): I had often heard of the superstition of sailors respecting...
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  • George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington (16 July 1761 – 4 March 1829), was a British minister and aristocrat. Barrington was born on 16 July 1761....
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    of Fleet Prison in the 1720s – imprisoned for extortion and murder George Barrington, pickpocket – held at least twice in Newgate between 1783 and 1790...
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  • George Bainbridge Barrington (20 April 1857 – 29 March 1942) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1880 and 1887...
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    European powers through the presence and labour of convicts." Convict George Barrington is (perhaps apocryphally) recorded as having written the prologue...
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  • Flying Dutchman, originally from A Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) by George Barrington Hamlet's father from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet Hugh Crain...
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    Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area...
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  • Captain George Barrington (20 November 1794 – 2 January 1835) was a Royal Navy officer and Whig politician. Barrington served in the Royal Navy becoming...
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    Barn Arthur Guinness: Politician and brewer, founder of Guinness George Barrington: pickpocket, socialite Aisling Bea: Comedian Eamon Broy: Policeman...
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  • Barrington is both a given name and a surname of English origin. Barrington Bartley (born 1980), American cricketer Barrington J. Bayley (1937–2008), English...
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    Major-General John Barrington (c. 1722 – 2 April 1764) was a British Army officer who was the third son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington. He was the...
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    of highwaymen; and Cutting Ball, a notorious Elizabethan thief. George Barrington's escapades, arrests, and trials, were widely chronicled in the late...
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    on 6 October 1793, Barrington was the eldest son of fifteen children born to the Reverend George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington, by his wife Elizabeth...
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  • Sir George Barrington Cartland, CMG (22 September 1912 – 31 July 2008) was the only deputy-governor of Uganda, in office from 1961 to 1962. After retiring...
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    William Wildman Shute Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, PC (15 January 1717 – 1 February 1793), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons...
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  • Irish soldier, transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1849 for theft George Barrington (1755–1804), Irish author and socialite, transported to New South...
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    elected to the Cape Parliament. Henry was a son of Reverend George Barrington, 5th Viscount Barrington of Ardglass (1761-1829), prebendary of Durham Cathedral...
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    Barrington is a suburban, residential town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States, approximately 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Providence. As of...
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    Richard James Barrington, 4th Viscount Barrington (died 8 December 1813), was a British aristocrat. Richard James Barrington was the son of Maj. Gen. Hon...
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  • copy of Richard S. Lambert's The Prince of Pickpockets: A Study of George Barrington. The French-Tunisian pickpocket Henri Kassagi acted as technical advisor...
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  • George Barrington "Barry" Porter (11 June 1939 – 3 November 1996) was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician who was the MP for Bebington...
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    5th Earl Cadogan. His mother was the second daughter of George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington, who was a Member of Parliament for Eye and served as...
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  • was George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington, MP. His younger brothers were diplomat Sir William Barrington and civil servant Sir Eric Barrington, and...
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    Barrington Park is a Palladian style country house standing in an estate of the same name near the villages of Great Barrington and Little Barrington...
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    Captain George Barrington on 15 January 1827. They had two children Georgiana Grey (17 February 1801 – 13 September 1900), who never married. Henry George Grey...
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    John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (1678 – 14 December 1734), known as John Shute until 1710, was an English dissenting theologian and Whig politician...
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