[2] He was the son of Sir Robert Harington (died 1334), who predeceased his own father the 1st Baron.
[2] She was the heiress of several estates including: Thurston in Suffolk; Moulton, Skirbeck and Fleet in Lincolnshire, of Egremont in Cumbria and of manors in County Limerick, Ireland.
[2] Elizabeth outlived her husband and in about 1334 remarried to Walter de Bermingham.
[2] In 1353 he confirmed the agreement made by his grandfather with the Abbot of Furness Abbey,[2] his feudal overlord at Aldingham.
[3] In 1355 he nominated an attorney to act for him in Ireland, where he had inherited lands in County Limerick from his mother.