Peter Carington

The Right Honourable The Lord Carrington KG GCMG CH MC PC DL
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
Incumbent
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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