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Lord Carrington

The Right Honourable
The Lord Carrington
KG GCMG CH MC PC DL
Peter Carington.PNG
6th Secretary General of NATO
In office
25 June 1984 – 1 July 1988
Preceded by Joseph Luns
Succeeded by Manfred Wörner
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office
4 May 1979 – 5 April 1982
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by David Owen
Succeeded by Francis Pym
Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
In office
4 March 1974 – 4 May 1979
Leader Edward Heath
Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Lord Shackleton
Succeeded by Lord Peart
In office
16 October 1964 – 20 June 1970
Leader Alec Douglas-Home
Edward Heath
Preceded by The Earl Alexander of Hillsborough
Succeeded by Lord Shackleton
Secretary of State for Energy
In office
8 January 1974 – 4 March 1974
Prime Minister Edward Heath
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Eric Varley
Secretary of State for Defence
In office
20 June 1970 – 8 January 1974
Prime Minister Edward Heath
Preceded by Denis Healey
Succeeded by Ian Gilmour
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office
1972–1974
Leader Edward Heath
Preceded by Peter Thomas
Succeeded by William Whitelaw
Leader of the House of Lords
In office
20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964
Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by The Viscount Hailsham
Succeeded by The Earl of Longford
Minister without Portfolio
In office
20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964
Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by Bill Deedes
Succeeded by George Thomson
First Lord of the Admiralty
In office
14 October 1959 – 20 October 1963
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Preceded by The Earl of Selkirk
Succeeded by The Earl Jellicoe
High Commissioner to Australia
In office
1956–1959
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Preceded by Stephen Holmes
Succeeded by William Oliver
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Defence
In office
1954–1956
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Preceded by Nigel Birch
Succeeded by The Earl of Gosford
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Food
In office
1951 – 1954
Alongside Richard Nugent
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Preceded by The Earl of Listowel
Arthur Champion
Succeeded by Richard Nugent
The Earl St Aldwyn
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
17 November 1999
Life peerage
In office
6 June 1940 – 11 November 1999
Hereditary peerage
Preceded by Rupert Carington, 5th Baron Carrington
Succeeded by House of Lords Act 1999
Personal details
Born (1919-06-06) 6 June 1919 (age 98)
London, England
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Iona McClean
(m. 1942; d. 2009)
Children 3
Alma mater Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Military service
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  British Army
Years of service 1939–1949
(inactive from 1945)
Rank Major
Unit Grenadier Guards
Battles/wars Second World War
Awards Military Cross

Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC, DL (born 6 June 1919) is a British Conservative politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary between 1970 and 1974, Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982, chairman of General Electric between 1983 and 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. He is the last surviving member of the 1951–55 government of Winston Churchill, the Eden government, and the Macmillan government and of the cabinets of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath. Following the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, Carrington was created a life peer as Baron Carington of Upton, of Upton in the County of Nottinghamshire.

Carrington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina. He took full responsibility for the failure of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to foresee this and resigned. As Secretary General of NATO, he helped prevent a war between Greece and Turkey in 1987.


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