Sir William Speight Carrington (20 February 1904 – 6 May 1975) was an English accountant. The son of William Carrington (died 1962) of

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, he was schooled at

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and then

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. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1926 and joined Whinney, Smith and Whinney of

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in 1928, becoming a partner in 1932. He was a senior partner of its successor, Whinney Murray and Co. from 1967 to 1970. He was elected a member of the

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's council in 1942, sitting until 1968; he was the Institute's President for the year 1955–56. He was also a member of the Central Valuation Board under the Coal Nationalisation Act 1946, a Member of the Tucker Committees on taxation of trading profits, a Member of the Royal Commission on Taxation from 1951 to 1955 and a Younger Brother of

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in 1952. He was

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in 1958. In 1932, he married Dorothy Mary, daughter of T. W. Fabian, and they had one son.''Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes'', vol. 95 (1969), p. 420.

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