Walter Bernard Louis Barrington, a merchant banker (a partner of Sir Lawrence Jones, Bt), and Eleanor Nina Snagge.
In 1936, following the death the previous year of his grandfather's second wife, Charlotte, the dowager Viscountess Barrington, Beckett Hall, the family seat and estate were bought by the War Office for use as an artillery training school.
"[1] After University, "he dabbled in diplomacy for a spell as an honorary attaché at the British Embassy in Berlin; but his unstoppable flow of conversation and untidy appearance did not find favour with the formidable Ambassador, Sir Horace Rumbold.
A collection of his poems, including his best-known work, The Diplomatic Platypus, was published as Songs of a Sub-Man by Patrick Barrington (Methuen & Company Ltd, 1934).
[6] Lord Barrington, who lived with his eldest niece Jane (née Alderson) Carter in Oaktree Close, Virginia Water,[6] never married, died in St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, on 6 April 1990,[1] upon which his titles became extinct.