Career
In 1908, he floated the company for £40,000. Shillington first came to prominent as the chairman of the Irish Land Committee on its formation in 1883, an organisation aiming to draw together numerous local tenant"s rights bodies. At the 1885 United Kingdom general election, Shillington stood for the Liberal Party in North Armagh, but was not elected.
At the 1895 United Kingdom general election, Shillington stood in South Tyrone as an independent nationalist, narrowly losing to the Liberal Unionist Thomas Wallace Russell.
In 1911, he was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland, and then in 1923 to the recently founded Privy Council of Northern Ireland.
