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'''Sir Richard Harington, 12th Baronet''', JP, DL (3 March 1861 – 1 February 1931) was a British barrister and judge.

Harington was the eldest son of [[Sir Richard Harington, 11th Baronet]], a Metropolitan Police Magistrate and County Court judge.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2 February 1931 |title=Sir Richard Harington |pages=14 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> He was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. Called to the [[Bar association|Bar]] in 1886, he practised as a barrister on the [[Crown Court|Oxford Circuit]] before taking up an appointment as a [[Puisne Judge|puisne judge]] in the [[Calcutta High Court|High Court of Judicature at Fort William]] in 1899, where he served in that capacity until returning home in 1913.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |date=16 January 1907 |title=The Hon'ble Mr. Justice R. Harington, M. A. |journal=[[The Calcutta Law Journal]] |volume=V |issue=2}}</ref>

He had, meanwhile, served in the London Brigade of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers from 1880 to 1891, and had commanded the Artillery Company of the Calcutta Port Defence Volunteers from 1900 to 1909. He volunteered for the [[Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]] on the outbreak of the [[World War I|First World War]] in 1914, aged 53. He was promoted to the rank of [[Chief Petty Officer]] in the Anti-Aircraft Corps, in which capacity he served until 1916.

A onetime [[Justice of the Peace]] and [[Deputy Lieutenant]] for [[Herefordshire]], he was appointed [[High Sheriff of Herefordshire]] in 1918 and died in February 1931, having succeeded to his father's title in 1911.

Harington married the Hon. Selina Louisa Grace, daughter of [[Charles Dundas, 6th Viscount Melville|Charles Saunders Dundas, 6th Viscount Melville]], in 1899. He was succeeded by his elder son, Richard Dundas Harington, who became the 13th Baronet.<ref name=":0" />

== See also ==

* [[Harington baronets]]

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