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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 ...
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Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, British politician who was secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from 1984 to 1988. He previously had served as foreign secretary (1979–82) under Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Jul 10, 2018 · Lord Carrington, who has died aged 99, served in all the Conservative administrations from Winston Churchill’s in 1951 to Margaret Thatcher ’s in 1979. One of the last of the patrician statesmen,...
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Biography. Peter Carrington was born in Chelsea on 6 June 1919, the only son of the 5th Baron Carrington and Sibyl Colville. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and after his father’s death in 1938 he succeeded his father as the 6th Baron when he was just 19 years old.
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 Lords after 1964 and became defence ...
Jan 31, 2019 · The Eton-educated, 6th Baron Carrington was not a natural ally for Thatcher but as she herself recalled: "Peter had great panache and the ability to identify immediately the main points in...
Jul 10, 2018 · Peter Carrington, Lord Carrington, who has died aged 99, was the longest serving member of the House of Lords. He held office in the governments of six successive Conservative prime ministers...
