Rupert Victor John Carington, 5th Baron Carrington JP, DL (20 December 1891 – 19 November 1938), was a British peer.

Life

He succeeded to the title in 1929. Carrington was the son of

Rupert Carington, 4th Baron Carrington Rupert Clement George Carington, 4th Baron Carrington, (18 December 1852 – 11 November 1929), known as the Hon. Rupert Carington from 1868 to 1928, was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician. Background Carington was the third son of R ...

, and Edith, daughter of John Horsefall and Mary Maiden. He fought in the

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as a captain in the

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and was twice wounded. After the war he served as a Deputy Lieutenant and

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for

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. He succeeded his father in the barony in 1929, but never spoke in the

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Family

Lord Carrington married the Hon. Sybil Marion Colville, daughter of his half-cousin

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, in 1916. They had one son and one daughter. He died in November 1938, aged 46, and was succeeded by his only son,

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, who became a prominent Conservative politician. Lady Carrington died in December 1946.

References

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