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Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC, DL (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, Chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988.
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (born June 6, 1919, London, England—died July 9, 2018) was a British politician who was secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from 1984 to 1988. He previously held posts in the administrations of various Conservative prime ministers, notably serving as foreign secretary (1979 ...
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Jul 10, 2018 · Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, former foreign secretary, born 6 June 1919, died 10 July 2018 More about Falklands War Margaret Thatcher Conservative Party
May 23, 2018 · views 3,666,517 updated May 23 2018. Carrington, Peter, 6th Baron Carrington (b. 1919). Carrington is one of the few hereditary peers to hold high office through the modern Conservative Party. After junior ministerial appointments, Carrington served as high commissioner in Australia 1956–9. He rose to prominence as opposition leader in the ...
Jul 14, 2018 · Lord Carrington, 1919–2018. Peter Carington, the 6th Baron Carrington, passed away on July 9. He was the last surviving person to serve in government under Winston Churchill having been a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and then Defence when Churchill was Prime Minister from 1951 to 1955.
Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018) was a British Conservative politician. [1] He served as British Defence Secretary between 1970 and 1974, Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982 and as the sixth Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. He was the last surviving member of the Cabinets of ...
Jul 10, 2018 · Lord Carrington was the Conservative foreign secretary who oversaw the creation of Zimbabwe and resigned over the Falklands invasion. ... as sixth Baron Carrington, on the death of his father, in ...
