Matthew Hadrian Marshall Carrington, Baron Carrington of Fulham (born 19 October 1947) is a British politician. Formerly the
Conservative
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Member of Parliament
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for
Fulham
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandsworth ...
from
1987
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to
1997
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, in September 2013 Carrington was made a
life peer
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and member of the
House of Lords
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.
Early life
Carrington was born in
London
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and was educated at the
Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle
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and
Imperial College London
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,
during which time he chaired the Imperial College Conservative Society and graduated with a
BSc
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...
and
ARCS in Physics in 1969. He then attended the
London Business School
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, where he received an
MBA
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. He was a banker with the First National Bank of Chicago (now the
First Chicago Bank
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) between 1974 and 1978, and then the Saudi International Bank between 1978 and 1987. He subsequently became chairman of the Outdoor Advertising Association
and chief executive of the Retail Motor Industry Federation.
Political career
Carrington first stood for Parliament at
Tottenham
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in
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
, coming second to the incumbent
Labour
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
MP
Norman Atkinson
Norman Atkinson (25 March 1923 – 8 July 2013) was a British politician who served as Labour Member of Parliament for the London constituency of Tottenham from 1964 until 1987.
Early life
Manchester-born, Atkinson was educated at technical scho ...
.
He unsuccessfully contested the Fulham seat at
a by-election in 1986 but won it at the general election a year later,
defeating the Labour by-election victor
Nick Raynsford
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(who returned to Parliament five years later as the Member for
Greenwich
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Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich ...
). Carrington was
Parliamentary Private Secretary
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to
John Patten when he was a
Home Office Minister between November 1990 and April 1992, and then when Patten was promoted to
Secretary of State for Education
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. Carrington returned to the backbenches before joining
John Major
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's
government
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against as an
Assistant Whip between 1996 and the
1997 general election, simultaneously serving as Chairman of the
Treasury Select Committee
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.
The Fulham constituency disappeared in the boundary changes ahead of the 1997 election, and Carrington was selected as the Conservative candidate for the new
Hammersmith and Fulham constituency, but was defeated by the Labour candidate
Iain Coleman
Iain Coleman (born 18 January 1958) was the Labour Member of Parliament for Hammersmith and Fulham in London from 1997 to 2005. He was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham for Shepherd's Bush Green ward in Ma ...
.
He failed to regain the seat at the
2001 general election,
but Carrington stayed active in local politics, and was elected Chairman of the
Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservatives on 28 March 2012. On 11 September 2013 he was created a
life peer
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taking the title Baron Carrington of Fulham, of
Fulham
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in the
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
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. Carrington is a
non-executive director
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of the
Sharia
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-compliant
Gatehouse Bank
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Gatehouse Bank is a Shariah-compliant challenger bank which is a subsidiary of the Gatehouse Financial Group ...
and the
Arab-British Chamber of Commerce
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, as well as a trustee of
St John's, Notting Hill.
Personal life
Carrington was married to Mary Lou, who died in 2008. Mary Lou held senior positions at the
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
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between 1985 and 1998, and was an assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, where Matthew Carrington had also worked. Mary Lou had also been elected a common councilman for the
City of London
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ward of
Lime Street.
They had one daughter together.
References
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
1947 births
Living people
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
Conservative Party (UK) life peers
People from Fulham
People educated at Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle
Alumni of Imperial College London
Alumni of London Business School
Life peers created by Elizabeth II