Coat of arms of Harington: Sable, a fret argent.

The Harington[1] Baronetcy, of Ridlington in the county of Rutland, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 29 June 1611 for James Harington.[2] He was a descendant of John Harington, one of the Barons summoned to Parliament by Edward II. James's elder brother was John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton.[3][4][5][6] The second Baronet was a Royalist during the English Civil War. The third Baronet was a Major-General in the Parliamentarian Army and one of the judges appointed to try Charles I, although he refused to sit. He was nonetheless excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act and his title was forfeited for life in 1661. The ninth, eleventh, and twelfth Baronets were all judges. The family is one of two families to have produced three County Court judges.

The Rev. Richard Harington, son of the eighth baronet, was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. Sir Charles Robert Harington (1897–1972), son of Reverend Charles Harington, second son of the eleventh Baronet, was Professor of Chemical Pathology at the University of London and Director of the National Institute for Medical Research. John Harington (1873–1943), fifth son of the eleventh Baronet, was a Brigadier-General in the British Army. David Gawen Champernowne (1912–2000), great-grandson of Arthur Champernowne (who assumed the surname of Champernowne in 1774), son of Reverend Richard Harington, second son of the sixth Baronet, was Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford from 1948 to 1959 and Professor of Economics and Statistics at the University of Cambridge from 1970 to 1978. The second son of the current baronet is the actor Christopher "Kit" Harington, b. 1986.[7]

Harington baronets, of Ridlington (1611)

The heir apparent to the baronetcy is the present holder's elder son John "Jack" Catesby Harington (born 1984). Sir David Harington is also the father of the actor Kit Harington.[10]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ John Tapin writes that in most existing 1600s contemporary records the spelling of the name was with a double 'r', however, the single 'r' is used in some instances, and this is the way the family spells their name today.
  2. ↑ George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage 1900
  3. 1 2 John Taplin References
  4. ↑ Sir James HARRINGTON of Exton, Knight
  5. 1 2 James Harrington of Ridlington
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Families covered: Harington (Harrington) of Exton, Harington of Ridlington
  7. ↑ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 2015 ed.
  8. ↑ Cadaver Tombs: Church of St James the Great, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine (alternative site)
  9. ↑ "Battle of Cropredy Bridge". Archived from the original on 22 July 2005. Retrieved 7 May 2006.
  10. ↑ Kit Harington - Biography Series

References

  • Ian Grimble's The Harington Family published by Jonathan Cape, London 1957
  • John Taplin Shakespeare's Granddaughter and the Bagleys of Dudley published by the Black Country Society June 2005 (Originally published in 38/4, 39/1 and 39/2 of The Blackcountryman).
  • Leigh Rayment's list of baronets Baronetage: Hacking to Harmsworth[usurped]. This reference includes some of the dates and is the sole reference for Baronet 10 to 13. It is also the ref for 14, confirmed by The Official Roll of the Baronets.
  • Kidd, Charles & Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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