Education
Barrington attended Headfort School (County Meath, Ireland), Cheltenham College, and spent two years at Trinity College Dublin.
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Jonah Barrington
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Career
One of his ancestors, Sir Jonah Barrington, established an estate in County Limerick called "Glenstal", which was eventually sold in the 1930s to a group of belgian Benedictine monks who established a boarding school.
Achievements
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A Cornish-born Irish squash player, Barrington won the British Open title six times between 1967 and 1973, and was known as "Mr. Squash". The six-time British champion came from an old Anglo-Irish family.Jonah now coaches Egyptian world no.1 and 2015 British Open champion Mohamed Elshorbagy. In 1982 Barrington co-authored the book Murder in the Squash Court: the Only Way to Win.
