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Barrington

American  
[bar-ing-tuhn] / ˈbær ɪŋ tən /

noun

  1. a town in E Rhode Island.


Barrington British  
/ ˈbærɪŋtən /

noun

  1. Jonah . born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72

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They spent the 1970s working with major reggae acts like Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown and Barrington Levy, while touring the US with Peter Tosh.

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Burns scholar and enthusiast Dr Bill Zachs said: "Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, reported about a séance that happened where a crazy Burns collector named Edward Barrington Nash tried through the medium of a spirit to invoke Robert Burns and find where this missing portrait was."

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Oli Barrington, a trustee at the exotic animal charity, said the dogs, who were found emaciated, were now in a "comfortable, safe and recovering from the ordeal".

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Mr Barrington said at Wolves of Wiltshire, the focus was "on the animals themselves, their welfare, and their happiness".

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Mr Barrington said Wolves of Wiltshire have specific licenses that allow them to care for the animals, because they were an "unknown quantity, and they could have potentially required a dangerous animals license".

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