Viscount Barrington, of Ardglass, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1720 (along with the subsidiary title Baron Barrington, of Newcastle) for the lawyer, theologian and politician John Shute Barrington. The seventh Baron was created Baron Shute in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1880, with remainder to his younger brother Percy. The titles became extinct on the death of the eleventh Viscount in 1990. The Peerage of Ireland is the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ...
He is Joe Gentile, the retired "Baron of Barrington." He is the Patron Saint of Loyola University Chicago's basketball team.
He was nicknamed the "Baron of Barrington" by Chet Coppeck in 1982, broadcasting from the grand opening of Gentile's new car dealership.
A master promoter himself (the Baron of Barrington always had something going on at his dealership to attract buyers), he has long strived to bring the Loyola U Ramblers to the forefront of the national college basketball arena.
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