Robert Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire

Charles Robert Wynn Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire

Charles Robert Wynn Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire KG GCMG PC (* 16th May 1843 in Whitehall , London ; † 13. June 1928 in Daws Hill House, High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , England ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party .

He was a member of the House of Commons for the Wycombe constituency from 1865 to 1868 , inherited the title of 3rd Baron Carrington in 1868 and was a member of the House of Lords for sixty years until his death in 1928 . He held the office of Lord Great Chamberlain from 1879 to 1928 . He was Governor of New South Wales between 1886 and 1890 . He later served from 1905 to 1911 as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) and then from 1911 to 1912 as Lord Seal Keeper . On February 26, 1912, he was promoted to Marquess of Lincolnshire . He also served from 1915 to 1923 the post of Lord Lieutenant of the county Buckinghamshire.

On August 21, 1880, he changed with Royal approval (Royal License) his surname from Carrington in Carington , on 24 April 1896 by Royal License again in Wynn-Carington .

Life

Family origins and siblings

Charles Robert Carrington was the second of five children and the eldest son of Robert John Carington and his wife, Charlotte Augusta Annabella Drummond-Willoughby, daughter of Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby .

His grandfather Robert Smith was given the Irish title of Baron Carrington , of Bulcot Lodge in 1796 and the British title of Baron Carrington, of Upton in the County of Nottingham in 1797 . With the latter a hereditary seat in the House of Lords was connected, so that Robert Smith for this his seat in the lower house, which he held for Nottingham from 1779 to 1797 , gave up. After this grandfather, his son, Charles Roberts father, inherited the title in 1838 and accordingly had to move to his lower house, which he held from 1818 to 1820 for Wendover , from 1820 to 1821 for Buckinghamshire and again from 1831 to 1838 for Wycombe , in favor of a seat in Abandon House of Lords.

His older sister Augusta Clementina Carrington was the wife of Archibald Campbell , who spent eight years a member of the House of Commons, 1885-1892 Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Scotland (Grand Lodge of Scotland) was as well in 1892 as Baron Blythswood was raised to the peerage and between 1904 and 1908 was Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire .

His younger brother, William Henry Peregrine Carrington , succeeded him in 1868 as a Member of the House of Commons for the Wycombe constituency , which he represented for 15 years until 1883. His younger sister Eva Elizabeth Carrington Smith was married to Charles Augustus Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington .

Robert Carrington's youngest brother, Rupert Clement George Carington , was also a member of the House of Commons between 1880 and 1885 and inherited from him the title of 4th Baron Carrington , of Upton in the County of Nottinghamshire and thus membership in the House of Lords, who died in 1928 but already a year later.

Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords

Charles Robert Carrington attended the renowned Eton College from 1856 to 1861 and then took up studies at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge , from which he graduated in 1863 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA).

He began his political career as a candidate for the Liberal Party on July 11, 1865, was elected a member of the House of Commons and represented the Wycombe constituency until March 17, 1868 .

After the death of his father, he inherited the title of 3rd Baron Carrington on March 1, 1868, and was a member of the House of Lords for more than 60 years until his death on June 13, 1928. In 1869 he was promoted to captain of the Royal Horse Guards .

Lord Great Chamberlain and Governor of New South Wales

After the death of his mother Charlotte Augusta Annabella Drummond-Willoughby, Baroness Carrington, on July 26, 1879, he inherited the office of Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain from her and held this office as Chamberlain as one of the so-called Great Officers of State with other nobles up to on his death in 1928.

Furthermore, on June 27, 1881, he succeeded Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly as Captain of the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms and thus commander of one of Queen Victoria's ceremonial bodyguards . He held this position until he was replaced by George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry on July 6, 1885. At the same time he was appointed a member of the Privy Council (PC) on July 15, 1881 and honored on June 6, 1885 as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG).

On December 12, 1885, Baron Carrington replaced Augustus Loftus as governor of New South Wales . He remained in this post until November 3, 1890, before Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, succeeded him on January 15, 1891 .

Lord Chamberlain of the Household and Minister of Agriculture

In 1892, Baron Carrington took over from Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom, the function of Lord Chamberlain of the Household and remained in this position as chamberlain and chief official of the court before the 1st Earl of Lathom replaced him in 1895.

By a letters patent from July 16, 1895 he was raised to Earl Carrington and Viscount Wendover , of Cheping Wycombe in the County of Buckinghamshire. He also served intermittently as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 3rd Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry .

Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman appointed him President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) in his cabinet on December 10, 1905, and retained this post after Herbert Henry Asquith assumed the post of Prime Minister on April 6, 1908 would have. On October 15, 1906, he was accepted as a Knight Companion in the Order of the Garter , the most exclusive order of knights in the United Kingdom and one of the most respected in Europe.

Keeper of the Lord Seal and Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire

As part of a reshuffle of the Asquith government, he took over on October 23, 1911 from Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, the office of Lord Privy Seal , while Walter Runciman received the office of Minister of Agriculture. In another cabinet reshuffle, the 1st Marquess of Crewe took over the office of Lord Seal Keeper again in 1912, while he himself resigned from the government.

By another letters patent from February 26, 1912 he was raised to the Marquess of Lincolnshire . He held beside temporarily functions as honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry as well as a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) and magistrate (Justice of the Peace) Buckinghamshire.

Most recently, after the death of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild on March 31, 1915, he succeeded him as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. He held this office as representative of the king in this county until 1923 and was then replaced by Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe .

Marriage and offspring

Carrington married Cecilia Margaret Harbord, daughter of Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield , on July 15, 1878 at the Royal Chapel in White Hall . This gave birth to five daughters and one son.

The eldest daughter, Lady Marjorie Cecilia Wynn-Carington, was the wife of Charles Henry Wellesley Wilson, 2nd Baron Nunburnholme , who was briefly a member of the House of Commons between 1906 and 1907 and Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1908 to 1924 . The second eldest daughter Lady Alexandra Augusta Wynn-Carington was married to William Llewellen Palmer, who as a colonel in the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) , a cavalry regiment of the British Army , and most recently in the line infantry regiment Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) served.

The third eldest daughter Lady Ruperta Wynn-Carington was the wife of William Legge, 7th Earl of Dartmouth , who from 1910 to 1918 member of the House of Commons, acting from 1928 to 1936 Lord Great Chamberlain and 1930-1942 High Bailiff of Westminster was . The fourth oldest daughter, Lady Judith Sydney Myee Wynn-Carington, who died in 1928, was the first wife of Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel , who in 1942 became the 9th Earl of Albemarle in the House of Lords.

His youngest daughter, Lady Victoria Alexandrina Wynn-Carington, was married twice, her first marriage to Nigel Walter Legge-Bourke, who fell as a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards during the First World War on October 30, 1914. Her second marriage was to Edric Alfred Cecil Weld Forester, who was also an officer and served in the Second Boer War and as a major in World War I, and later was Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.

His youngest child and at the same time only son Albert Edward Charles Robert Wynn-Carington, Viscount Wendover, served as a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards and died at the age of 20 on May 19, 1915 of the consequences of injuries sustained during a combat mission in the First World War.

Since he died on his death on June 13, 1928 without male descendants, the title of Marquess of Lincolnshire and the subordinate titles Earl Carrington and Viscount Wendover expired . The two baronies Carrington including the associated membership in the House of Lords inherited his younger brother Rupert Carington (1852-1929) as the 4th baron.

Web links

• Robert Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Sir Charles Robert Wynn-Carington, 1st and last Marquess of Lincolnshire, on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Title created	Marquess of Lincolnshire 1912-1928	Title expired
Title created	Earl Carrington 1896-1928	Title expired
Robert Carington	Baron Carrington 1868-1928	Rupert Carington