Sir William Henry Peregrine Carington GCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 KCB

Order of the Bath

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 PC JP

Justice of the Peace

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 (28 July 1845 – 7 October 1914) was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1883

Biography

Carington was the second son of Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington, and his second wife the Hon. Charlotte Augusta Annabella, daughter of Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby

Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby

Peter Robert Drummond-Burrell, 2nd Baron Gwydyr, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby PC was a British nobleman. He was the son of Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr and Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby .From 1812 until 1820, he was Member of Parliament for Boston in Lincolnshire...

. He was educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and served in the Grenadier Guards

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, achieving the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

Carington was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Wycombe

Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1868 and held the seat until 1883. Carington was a Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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  from 1880 to 1882. He fought in the Egyptian campaign of 1882 and was awarded a medal for his actions. He was acting Master of the Buckhounds

Master of the Buckhounds

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 from 1883 to 1884, Equerry

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 to Queen Victoria from 1881 to 1901 and an Extra Equerry to King Edward VII

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

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 from 1901 to 1910. In 1910 he was sworn of the Privy Council.

Carington married Julia Warden, daughter of Francis Warden, in 1871. They had no children. She died in November 1913. Carington only survived her by eleven months and died aged 69. Robert Wynn Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire

Robert Wynn Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire

Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire KG, GCMG, PC, DL, JP , known as the Lord Carrington from 1868 to 1895 and as the Earl Carrington from 1895 to 1912, was a British Liberal politician and aristocrat.-Background and education:Born at Whitehall, London, Lincolnshire was the...

, was his elder brother and Rupert Carington, 4th Baron Carrington

Rupert Carington, 4th Baron Carrington

Rupert Clement George Carington, 4th Baron Carrington CVO DSO DL , known as the Hon. Rupert Carington from 1868 to 1928, was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician....

, his younger brother.