[2][3][4] The following year he succeeded his father in the viscountcy but as this was an Irish peerage he did not have to resign his seat in the House of Commons.

In 1874 he was sworn of the Privy Council[5] and appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in the Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli,[6] a post he held until the government was defeated in the 1880 general election.

[7] The latter year Barrington was created Baron Shute, of Beckett in the County of Berkshire, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

Together, they had three daughters:[13] He died in office at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, in November 1886, after a few hours illness, aged 62.

He was succeeded in his titles (in the barony of Shute according to the special remainder) by his younger brother Percy.