Viscount Carrington, of Burford in the Province of Connaught, was a title in the

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. It was created in 1643 for Charles Smyth, 1st Baron Carrington of

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, Warwickshire. He had only a few days earlier been created

Baron Carrington Baron Carrington is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of England, once in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of Great Britain. History The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1643 in favou ...

, of Wootton in the County of Warwick, in the

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. His eldest son, Francis Smith, the second Viscount, served as

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from 1687 to 1689. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Charles Smith, the third Viscount. On his death in 1706 the titles became extinct. (This Smyth family was unrelated to the Smith (later Carington) family who became

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of the second and third creations.)

Viscounts Carrington (1643)

*Charles Smyth, 1st Viscount Carrington (1598–1665) *

Francis Smith, 2nd Viscount Carrington Francis Smith, 2nd Viscount Carrington (c. 1621 – 7 April 1701), was an English peer. Biography Smith was the son of Charles Smyth, 1st Viscount Carrington, by his wife Elizabeth Caryll, daughter of Sir John Caryll, of South Harting, Sussex. He ...

( – 1701) *Charles Smith, 3rd Viscount Carrington (1635–1706)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carrington Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland Noble titles created in 1643