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The Church of St. Andrew, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
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This is our interpretation of the inscription on this memorial and therefore might not be accurate.
In the South Eastern part of this chancel
are deposited the remains of
WILLIAM WILDMAN VISCOUNT BARRINGTON
Born Jan 15 1717 died Feb 1 1793
His strong discriminating understanding
His active talents and unremitting assiduity
In public benefits rendered him early conspicuousness
In the house of commons of which he was
thirty nine years uninteruptedly a member.
During thirty four years of that period
(under the reigns of Geo 2nd and Geo 3rd
Two princes whose confidence he enjoyed)
He served the crown with inflexible integrity high honour
and distinguished abilities in the office of
Lord of the Admiralty, Master of the Great Wardrobe
Secretary at War, Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Treasurer of the Navy
In 1778 he retired from Parliament and Public Office
to private life in full possession of his mental and bodily powers and
in the highest merited favour with his Sovereign.
The candour of his mind and the soundness of his judgement
and the urbanity of his manners, made him
the delight of every society in which he lived.
His zeal to promote the public good;
his wish to diffuse hapiness to all around him;
his benevillence which flowed from the heart
his affection to his family
secured to his character an esteem, attatchment,
veneration, and love, which
it has been the lot of few to experience.
This Monument is erected to his memory
by his three surviving brothers
to whom he was the best of fathers and of friends
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