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Rupert Carington, 7th Baron Carrington

Rupert Carington, 7th Baron Carrington

English businessman and member of the House of Lords (born 1948)

Rupert Francis John Carington, 7th Baron Carrington, DL (born 2 December 1948), is a British banker, hereditary peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords.

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Lord Carrington has served as Lord Great Chamberlain of England since the accession of Charles III in September 2022. In that role, he took part in the coronation of Charles III and Camilla.[1]

Early life

Carrington is the third child and only son of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919–2018), and his wife Iona née McClean (1920–2009).[2] His father was at the time of his birth in the beginning of his political career and would later hold several prominent positions, including those of Defence Secretary in the Heath ministry and Foreign Secretary in the first Thatcher ministry, and Secretary General of NATO.

He was educated at Eton College, and then the University of Bristol, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree.[3]

Carrington has two sisters, Alexandra (born 1943), married to Captain Peter de Bunsen,[4] and Virginia (born 1946), married to Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe (divorced).[5]

His maternal grandfather was civil engineer and aviator Sir Francis McClean.[6] His patrilineal ancestor Thomas Smith was the founder of Smith's Bank.[7]

Career

Carrington worked at the merchant bank Morgan, Grenfell & Co. for seventeen years[8] before starting his own financial advisory business, Rupert Carington Limited, in 1987.[9][10] He is chairman of Vietnam Infrastructure Ltd. and of Schroder AsiaPacific Fund,[11] and as an international adviser to the LGT Group.[8]

He succeeded his father as Baron Carrington in July 2018,[3] and became a member of the House of Lords in November of that year, after winning a crossbench hereditary peers' by-election, following the retirement of Lord Northbourne.[12]

On the accession of Charles III in 2022, Carrington became Lord Great Chamberlain of England,[13] according to the hereditary rotation of the office among three noble families.[14]

Personal life

Carrington married Daniela Diotallevi on 12 September 1989; they have three children:[15]

  • Hon. Robert Carington (born 7 December 1990, heir apparent)
  • Hon. Francesca Aurora Carington (born 24 July 1993)
  • Hon. Isabella Iona Carington (born 19 May 1995)

Honours

Lord Carrington was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Buckinghamshire in November 1999.[16]

References

  1. [1]
    "Coronation order of service in full". BBC News. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  2. [2]
    Langdon, Julia (10 July 2018). "Lord Carrington obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  3. [3]
    Burke's Peerage, volume 1 (2003), p. 706.
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    www.burkespeerage.com
  5. [5]
    "Lord Ashcombe - obituary". The Telegraph. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  6. [6]
    Hon. Rupert Francis John Carrington, gen.cookancestry.com.
  7. [7]
    J. Leighton Boyce, Smith's the Bankers 1658–1958 (1958).
  8. [8]
    Rupert Francis John Carington, bloomberg.com.
  9. [9]
    Rupert Carington Limited, beta.companieshouse.gov.uk.
  10. [10]
    Rupert Carington Limited, beta.companieshouse.gov.uk.
  11. [11]
    Rupert Francis John Carington, www.4-traders.com.
  12. [12]
    "Crossbench hereditary peers' by-election, November 2018: result" (PDF). House of Lords. 28 November 2018.
  13. [13]
    Dora Davies-Evitt, The Marquess of Cholmondeley replaced by Lord Carrington as Lord Great Chamberlain, Tatler, 13 September 2022.
  14. [14]
    "Position of the Lord Great Chamberlain following the demise of the monarch (Freedom of Information request)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  15. [15]
    Carington, Rupert Francis John, Webb-site Who's Who.
  16. [16]
    "No. 55667". The London Gazette. 15 November 1999. p. 12117.
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