John Herbert Harington (12 March 1765 – 9 April 1828) was a British orientalist, colonial administrator and judge.
He published a two-volume edition of the Arabic and Persian works of Saadi Shirazi.
[2] He entered the service of the East India Company at Calcutta as a writer on 1 August 1780.
[3] In 1781 he was appointed assistant in the revenue department, revenue Persian translator in 1783, puisne judge of the Dewanny Adawlut, and magistrate of Dinajpore on 1 May 1793; sub-secretary to the secret department, and examiner and reporter to the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut on 6 December 1793; registrar of the Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut on 15 Feb. 1796; fourth member of the board of revenue on 3 June 1799; puisne judge of the Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut on 1 April 1801; and chief judge of the Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut on 17 December 1811.
[1][5][6] Thomas Cudbert Harington (1798–1863), public servant in Australia, was a son of John Herbert Harrington, born out of wedlock, and, it is suggested, with an Indian mother.