Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1984)

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington in the robes of the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter (2006)

Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington , KG , GCMG , CH , MC , PC (* 6th June 1919 in London , England ; † 9 July 2018 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party . First Lord of the Admiralty in 1959. British Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982 and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988 .

life and career

Lord Carrington 1984 in conversation with Hans-Dietrich Genscher

Carington received his education at Eton and Sandhurst . In 1938, after the death of his father Rupert Carington, he inherited the title Baron Carrington . After coming of age in 1940, he became a member of the British House of Lords . During World War II , Carington served as a major in the Grenadier Guards and was awarded the Military Cross . In 1942 he married Iona McClean, with whom he had two daughters and a son. His wife died in June 2009.

In the Conservative governments of Winston Churchill (1951–1955) and Anthony Eden (1955–1957), he served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Department of Agriculture and Food (1951–1954) and the Department of Defense (1954–1956). In 1956 he was appointed High Commissioner for Australia (Ambassador) and held that post until 1959.

From 1959 to 1963 Carington was First Lord of the Admiralty , then Minister without Portfolio and Leader of the House of Lords until 1964 . From 1964 to 1970 he was opposition leader in the House of Lords. Under the conservative government of Edward Heath (1970–1974), he was initially Minister of Defense and, in 1974, briefly Minister of Energy. He also held the position of Chairman (Chairman) of the Conservative Party between 1972 and 1974 . Under the Labor governments from 1974 to 1979 he was again the leader of the opposition in the House of Lords.

In the first Thatcher administration , Carington was made Secretary of State in 1979. He hosted the 1979 Rhodesia Conference, which led to the conclusion of the Lancaster House Agreement and the end of the ongoing bloody conflict in Rhodesia. Then he turned to the Middle East and looked for negotiable solutions to the problems still pending there from the former colonial policy of Great Britain. Although not directly responsible, he took responsibility for the mistakes committed in the Foreign Ministry in April 1982 after the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and resigned, which meant the end of his government career. He was succeeded by Francis Pym . On June 25, 1984, he was appointed Secretary General of NATO and remained so until July 1, 1988. During this time, he was particularly committed to establishing “normal” relations with the USSR. From 1991 to 1992 he was negotiator of the EC peace conference for the Balkans . The main focus was on negotiations for a peaceful dissolution of Yugoslavia and the reduction of the existing conflicts there.

In addition to various board memberships, Carington has served as chairman or general manager of several companies including Christie's , Barclays Bank , Cadbury Schweppes and the Daily Telegraph . He was also Chairman of the Bilderberg Conference from 1989 to 1999 and since 1992 Rector of the University of Reading . On November 17, 1999, in addition to his hereditary title of nobility, he was awarded a life peerage with the title Baron Carington of Upton , of Upton in the County of Nottinghamshire . He thus retained his seat in the House of Lords even after the hereditary parliamentary seats were abolished by the House of Lords Act 1999 . He was the longest-serving member of the House of Lords after the death of George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, and was the second longest member of the Privy Council after the Duke of Edinburgh . In 1988 he published his memoir under the title "Reflect on Things Past".

Carington had until October 17, 2012 Chancellor of the Order of the Garter .

He died on July 9, 2018 at the age of 99. At the time of his death, Lord Carrington was the last surviving member of the Churchill government. In an obituary, The Guardian called him "one of the outstanding statesmen of the post-war era" and particularly emphasized his integrity and diplomatic skills. Carrington's former ministerial colleague Michael Heseltine called him a "great patriot" who embodied the "essence of one-nation conservatism ".

Awards and titles (selection)

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  coat of arms
  Military Cross (MC), 1945
• Privy Council (PC), 1959
• Companion of Honor (CH), 1983
• Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG), 1985
• Presidential Medal of Freedom , 1988
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG), 1988
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1990
• Four Freedoms Award , in the Freedom from Fear category , 1992

Honorary doctorate

• University of Cambridge ( LL.D ) 1981.
• University of Essex (Doctor of the University) 1983.
• University of Reading (Doctor of Letters) in December 1989.
• Harvard University ( LLD ) 1986.
• University of Nottingham ( LLD ) 1993.
• University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Doctor of Civil Law) December 14, 1998.
• University of Oxford (Doctor of Civil Law) November 21, 2003.

annotation

The family name, adopted by the family in 1839 in place of Smith , is spelled with an r , as is the title of Life Peerage , while the hereditary title is spelled with rr .

Web links

Commons : Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington of Upton on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lord Carrington dies
2. ↑ Erik J. Evans: Thatcher and Thatcherism. Routledge, Milton Park 1997, p. 99.
3. ↑ Lord Carrington: Obituary The Guardian, July 10, 2018
4. ^ Lord Carrington, former foreign secretary, dies aged 99 BBC News, July 10, 2018
5. ^ Honorary degrees conferred 1977 . Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 23, 2016. 
6. ^ Calendar of the University of Essex - Former Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Emeritus Professors, Emeritus Librarians, Honorary Fellows and Honorary Graduates of the University . Essex.ac.uk. Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 4, 2010. 
7. ^ Lord Carrington - Chancellor of the University of Reading - University of Reading . Rdg.ac.uk. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
8. ↑ honorary graduates of the university of reading - University of Reading . Rdg.ac.uk. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
9. ^ Harvard University Commencement | Some honorary degree recipients . Commencement.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on January 24, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 4, 2010. 
10. ^ Home Page - Alumni Association - Newcastle University . Ncl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 4, 2010. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Rupert Carington	Baron Carrington 1938-2018	Rupert Carington
George Douglas-Hamilton	First Lord of the Admiralty 1959–1963	George Jellicoe