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After the war, Carrington remained in the army until 1949. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) on 1 March 1945 'in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe'. Captain Lord Carrington played a key role as a tank commander during Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands in 1944 he led the first group of four Sherman tanks to reach the other side of the Nijmegen railway bridge across the Waal River. He served with the regiment during the Second World War, promoted to lieutenant on 1 January 1941, and later temporary captain and acting major.

Having trained at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Carrington was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards as a second lieutenant on 26 January 1939. Upon leaving Eton, his housemaster, Cyril Butterwick, said of him, 'For a really stupid boy, there are three possible professions: farming, soldiering and stockbroking'. Brought up at Millaton House in Bridestowe, Devon, he was educated at two independent schools: Sandroyd School from 1928 to 1932, based at the time in the town of Cobham, Surrey (now the site of Reed's School), and Eton College. He was a great-nephew of the Liberal statesman Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, and also of politician and courtier the Hon. Sybil Marion Colville, a daughter of Charles Colville, 2nd Viscount Colville of Culross. The spelling of the surname was changed by royal licence to 'Carington' (with one r) in 1880 by the 2nd Baron's sons, but the spelling of the title did not change.īorn in Chelsea on 6 June 1919, Peter Alexander Rupert Carington was the only son of the 5th Baron Carrington by his wife, the Hon. The latter's father, Robert Smith, MP for Nottingham, was created Baron Carrington in 1796 (Peerage of Ireland) and 1797 (Peerage of Great Britain). The surname 'Carrington' (with two r's) was adopted by royal licence dated 1839 by his direct male ancestor Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington, in lieu of Smith. įollowing the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, Carrington was created a life peer as Baron Carington of Upton. As NATO secretary general, he helped prevent a war between Greece and Turkey during the 1987 Aegean crisis.

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He took full responsibility for the failure to foresee this and resigned. In Margaret Thatcher's first government, he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the racial conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe.Ĭarrington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC, DL (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, Chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988.