A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Barrington, Sir Jonas
Admitted 13 June, 1783.
Third son of John Barrington, of Collanagh, Queen's County. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and called to the Irish Bar, where his abilities contributed to his rapid rise. He took silk in 1793, and became a Judge of the Admiralty in 1798. In 1790 he sat in the Irish Parliament for Tuam, and later for Clogher, holding that seat till the Union. Of that measure he was openly an opponent, but is believed to have connived at measures for promoting it. In 1830 he was deprived of his judgeship on a charge of peculation. He died in France, 8 April, 1834.
He was a man of wit and humour, and has left behind him. Personal Sketches of his own Time (1827—32); Historic Memoirs of Ireland (1832); The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation (1833). By the first of these he is now chiefly remembered.