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Charles Robert Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, (16 May 1843 – 13 June 1928), known as the Lord Carrington from 1868 to 1895, and as the Earl Carrington from 1895 to 1912, was a British
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politician and aristocrat. He was Governor of New South Wales from 1885 to 1890.


Background

Charles Robert Carrington was born at
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on 16 May 1843, the son of
Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington Robert John Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington, (16 January 1796 – 17 March 1868), was a politician and a baron in the Peerage of Great Britain. He was the son of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, and Anne Boldero-Barnard.Edward J. Davies, ...
, and his second wife Charlotte, the younger daughter of
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. The Hon. Sir William Carington and
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, were his younger brothers, while Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, was his grand-nephew. He was educated at
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and
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. He was a lifelong friend of
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, having first met him in 1854, and became his Aide-de-camp when he was the
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. On his mother's death in 1879 he became joint hereditary
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. Born Charles Carrington, he and his two brothers assumed by royal licence the surname of Carington in 1880. In 1896 he assumed by royal licence the surname of Wynn-Carington.


Political career

Carrington sat in the
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as a
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for
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from 1865 until he succeeded his father to the baronies in 1868. He served under
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as
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from 1881 to 1885, and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1881.Adonis, 1998. Wynn-Carrington was in
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1875–1876, appointed
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during 1881–1885, and was appointed to be the Governor of New South Wales in 1885 until 1890 and was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Knight Grand Cross in June 1885. He again held office under Gladstone and later
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as
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from 1892 to 1895. The latter year he was created Viscount Wendover, ''of Chepping Wycombe, in the County of Buckingham'', and Earl Carrington. In early 1901 he was appointed by
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to lead a special diplomatic mission to announce the King's accession to the governments of France, Spain, and
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. He also bore St Edward's Staff at the coronation of King Edward VII. After the Liberals returned to power in 1905 he served as President of the Board of Agriculture between 1905 and 1911 and as Lord Privy Seal between 1911 and 1912, with a seat in the cabinet in
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and
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's ministries. He was made a
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in 1906 and in 1912 he was further honoured when he was made Marquess of Lincolnshire. A noted land reformer, Carrington was a supporter of Lloyd George's redistributive "
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", which he regarded as "bold, Liberal and humane".


Freemasonry

He was initiated into
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No. 859, Cambridge, on 28 October 1861 at the age of 18, passed in Cairo some 8 years later, and raised in Royal York Lodge of Perseverance No. 7 on 6 October 1875. On 3 January 1882 he became a member of Royal Alpha Lodge No. 16. Even though he was not a past Master of a Lodge, he was appointed Senior Grand Warden of the
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in 1882. When he became Governor of New South Wales, he found a rivalry of lodges working under the United Grand Lodge of England and the Grand Lodge of Scotland as well as lodges working under the locally formed (1877) Grand Lodge of New South Wales. Trying to unite the lodges, he became firstly District Grand Master of New South Wales, and then the first Grand Master of the newly consecrated United Grand Lodge of New South Wales. However, as he had still not yet been installed as a Worshipful Master, he was first made Worshipful Master at sight of the Lodge Ionic No. 15. Nine senior Masons were present, including
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. In 1890 he was appointed Provincial Grand Master of Buckinghamshire and after serving five years, he was made Grand Representative in England of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales.


Family

Carrington married the Hon. Cecilia Margaret Harbord (1856–1934), daughter of
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, and Cecilia Annetta Baring, in 1878. They had one son and five daughters. Their only son, Albert Edward Charles Robert Wynn-Carington, Viscount Wendover (1895–1915), died on 19 May 1915 of complications following the amputation of an arm when he was wounded in the fighting at
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during
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. In addition to family life, Lord Carrington was logged by the police for homosexual activity: his name appears in the one of the notebooks of the high-profile Scotland Yard detective Donald Swanson. Having earlier sold his ancestral home,
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(which became a private girls' boarding-school), Lincolnshire died at his home, Daws Hill House, High Wycombe, on 13 June 1928. The baronies (but not his other titles) passed to his younger brother, Rupert. The marquessate, earldom and viscountcy became extinct. Cecilia, Marchioness of Lincolnshire, died in 1934, aged 78.


Issue


Other descendants

Among notable descendants are Stephen Wilson, 6th Baron Nunburnholme, Patrick Chichester, 8th Marquess of Donegall, and
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. Cousins
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and Eleanor Legge-Bourke are his descendants through his fifth daughter; they are both granddaughters of politician Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, only son of Lt. Nigel Legge-Bourke.Mosley, C. (ed.), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 1, p. 1039.


Ancestry


References


Citations


Bibliography

* * * Davenport-Nines, Richard. "A Radical Lord Chamberlain at a Tory Court: Lord Carrington, 1892–95." ''The Court Historian'' 16.2 (2011): 205-225. * * * * Venn, J. A. (1953)
''Alumni Cantabrigienses''
part 2, 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). p. 545


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