Sir John Barrington JP DL Kt (1824–1887), was an Irish businessman who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1865 (the first time a Quaker held the office) and again in 1879.
He was the great-grandson of John Barrington, a tallow candler who founded the John Barrington & Sons company that made soap at their premises on Great Britain St. (now Parnell St.[2] In 1848, he married Elizabeth Pim (1820–1900), the daughter of Jonathan Pim and Elizabeth Goff, at the Quaker Meeting House, Monkstown, County Dublin.
They had five children: Edward, Eliza Jane, Sarah, John Henry and Jonathan Pim Barrington.
[3] Barrington and his wife lived in St. Anne's and later Santa Severina (now Summerhill), in Killiney, County Dublin.
[4] He died on 2 May 1887, and is buried in the Friends Burial Ground in Blackrock, Dublin.