Sir William Augustus Curzon Barrington KCMG (28 January 1842 – 23 February 1922[1]) was a British diplomat.
[6] He was sent as secretary of legation to Buenos Aires in 1883[7] and was transferred to Budapest as consul-general two years later.
[8] Barrington arrived as secretary of embassy in Madrid in 1888[9] and exchanged to Vienna after four years.
[11] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the New Year Honours list 1901,[12] and was knighted and invested as such by King Edward VII in person in February 1901.
[13] In March 1902 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden and Norway,[14] but he did not take up the position until that Autumn; after he was received by King Edward VII in early September,[15] he arrived in Stockholm the following month.