British Liberal politician and aristocrat
Charles Robert Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire
,
KG
,
GCMG
,
PC
,
JP
,
DL
(16 May 1843 ? 13 June 1928), 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. He was
Governor of New South Wales
from 1885 to 1890.
[1]
Background
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Charles Robert Carrington was born at
Whitehall
on 16 May 1843, the son of
Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington
, and his second wife Charlotte, the younger daughter of
Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
.
[2]
The Hon.
Sir William Carington
and
Rupert Carington, 4th Baron Carrington
, were his younger brothers, while
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington
, was his grand-nephew. He was educated at
Eton
and
Trinity College, Cambridge
.
[1]
[3]
He was a lifelong friend of
King Edward VII
, having first met him in 1854,
[
citation needed
]
and became his
Aide-de-camp
when he was the
Prince of Wales
.
[1]
On his mother's death in 1879 he became
joint hereditary
Lord Great Chamberlain of England
.
[1]
Born Charles Carrington, he and his two brothers assumed by royal licence the surname of Carington in 1880. In 1896 he assumed by royal licence the surname of Wynn-Carington.
Political career
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Carrington sat in the
House of Commons
as a
Liberal
for
High Wycombe
from 1865 until he succeeded his father to the baronies in 1868.
He served under
William Ewart Gladstone
as
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
from 1881 to 1885, and was sworn of the
Privy Council
in 1881.
[1]
[5]
[6]
Wynn-Carrington was in
India
1875?1876, appointed
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms
during 1881?1885, and was appointed to be the
Governor of New South Wales
in 1885
[7]
until 1890 and was appointed to the
Order of St Michael and St George
as a Knight Grand Cross in June 1885.
[8]
He again held office under Gladstone and later
Lord Rosebery
as
Lord Chamberlain of the Household
from 1892 to 1895. The latter year he was created
Viscount Wendover
,
of Chepping Wycombe, in the County of Buckingham
, and
Earl Carrington
.
[9]
[6]
In early 1901 he was appointed by
King Edward VII
to lead a special diplomatic mission to announce the King's accession to the governments of France, Spain, and
Portugal
.
[10]
He also bore
St Edward's Staff
at the coronation of King Edward VII.
[1]
After the Liberals returned to power in 1905 he served as
President of the Board of Agriculture
between 1905 and 1911 and as
Lord Privy Seal
between 1911 and 1912, with a seat in the cabinet in
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
and
H. H. Asquith
's ministries.
He was made a
Knight Companion of the Garter
in 1906 and in 1912 he was further honoured when he was made
Marquess of Lincolnshire
.
[1]
[11]
[12]
A noted land reformer, Carrington was a supporter of Lloyd George's redistributive "
People's Budget
", which he regarded as "bold, Liberal and humane".
[13]
Freemasonry
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He was initiated into
Isaac Newton University Lodge
No. 859, Cambridge, on 28 October 1861 at the age of 18, passed in Cairo some eight years later, and raised in Royal York Lodge of Perseverance No. 7 on 6 October 1875. On 3 January 1882 he became a member of Royal Alpha Lodge No. 16. Even though he was not a past Master of a Lodge, he was appointed Senior Grand Warden of the
United Grand Lodge of England
in 1882.
When he became Governor of New South Wales, he found a rivalry of lodges working under the United Grand Lodge of England and the Grand Lodge of Scotland as well as lodges working under the locally formed (1877) Grand Lodge of New South Wales.
[14]
Trying to unite the lodges, he became firstly District Grand Master of New South Wales, and then the first
Grand Master
of the newly consecrated
United Grand Lodge of New South Wales
. However, as he had still not yet been installed as a Worshipful Master, he was first made Worshipful Master at sight of the Lodge Ionic No. 15. Nine senior Masons were present, including
Samuel Way
. In 1890 he was appointed
Provincial Grand Master
of Buckinghamshire and after serving five years, he was made Grand Representative in England of the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales.
[15]
Family
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Viscount Wendover (Albert Edward Charles Robert Wynn-Carington, 1895?1915) named on a memorial to the members of the Smiths' banking family who died in the World Wars
Carrington married the Hon. Cecilia Margaret Harbord (1856?1934), daughter of
Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield
, and Cecilia Annetta Baring, in 1878.
[1]
They had one son and five daughters. Their only son, Albert Edward Charles Robert Wynn-Carington, Viscount Wendover (1895?1915), died on 19 May 1915 of complications following the amputation of an arm when he was wounded in the fighting at
Ypres
during
World War I
.
[16]
In addition to family life, Lord Carrington was logged by the police for homosexual activity: his name appears in one of the notebooks of the high-profile Scotland Yard detective
Donald Swanson
.
[17]
Having earlier sold his ancestral home,
Wycombe Abbey
(which became a private girls' boarding-school), Lincolnshire died at his home, Daws Hill House, High Wycombe, on 13 June 1928. The baronies (but not his other titles) passed to his younger brother,
Rupert
. The marquessate, earldom and viscountcy became extinct.
[18]
Cecilia, Marchioness of Lincolnshire, died in 1934, aged 78.
Issue
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Life span
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Marriage(s)
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Notes
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by Cecilia Margaret Harbord
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Lady Marjorie Cecilia Wynn-Carington
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1880?1968
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Married
Hon. Charles Wilson
(later 2nd
Baron Nunburnholme
), son of
Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme
, and Florence Wellesley; had issue.
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Lady Alexandra Augusta Wynn-Carington
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1881?1955
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Married Col. William Palmer, son of Brig.
George Palmer
; had issue.
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Lady Ruperta Wynn-Carington
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1883?1963
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Married
William Legge, Viscount Lewisham
(later 7th
Earl of Dartmouth
), son of
William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth
, and Lady Mary Coke; had issue.
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Lady Judith Sydney Myee Wynn-Carington
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1889?1928
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Married
Walter Keppel, Viscount Bury
(later 9th
Earl of Albemarle
), son of
Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle
, and Lady Gertrude Egerton; had issue.
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Lady Victoria Alexandrina Wynn-Carington
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1892?1966
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Married, firstly, Lt. Nigel Legge-Bourke, son of
Sir Henry Legge
and Amy Lambart; had issue.
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Lt. Legge-Bourke, who was a first cousin of his brother-in-law Viscount Lewisham above, was killed in action in World War I.
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Married, secondly, Major Hon.
Edric Weld-Forester
, son of
Cecil Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester
, and Emma Dixie; had issue.
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Albert Edward Charles Robert Wynn-Carington
,
Viscount Wendover
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1895?1915
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Viscount Wendover died from wounds received in action in World War I.
[16]
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Other descendants
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Among notable descendants are
Stephen Wilson, 6th Baron Nunburnholme
,
Patrick Chichester, 8th Marquess of Donegall
, and
Rufus Keppel, 10th Earl of Albemarle
.
Cousins
Tiggy
and Eleanor Legge-Bourke are his descendants through his fifth daughter; they are both granddaughters of politician
Sir Harry Legge-Bourke
, only son of Lt. Nigel Legge-Bourke.
[19]
[20]
[21]
Ancestry
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Ancestors of Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire
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References
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Citations
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a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
(
Hesilrige 1921
)
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Adonis 2010
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"Smith (or Wynn-Carrington), the Hon. Charles Robert Wynn (SMT861CR)"
.
A Cambridge Alumni Database
. University of Cambridge.
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"No. 24997"
.
The London Gazette
. 19 July 1881. p. 3543.
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a
b
Adonis, 1998.
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"No. 25461"
.
The London Gazette
. 14 April 1885. p. 1669.
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"No. 25477"
.
The London Gazette
. 6 June 1885. p. 2631.
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"No. 26646"
.
The London Gazette
. 23 July 1895. p. 4158.
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"The King ? the special Embassies".
The Times
. No. 36410. London. 23 March 1901. p. 12.
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"No. 28586"
.
The London Gazette
. 1 March 1912. p. 1558.
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Martin, A. W. (1969).
"Carrington, Charles Robert [Marquess of Lincolnshire] (1843?1928)"
.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
. Canberra: National Centre of Biography,
Australian National University
.
ISBN
978-0-522-84459-7
.
ISSN
1833-7538
.
OCLC
70677943
. Retrieved
3 April
2008
.
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Travis L. Crosby (30 January 2014).
The Unknown David Lloyd George: A Statesman in Conflict
. p. 411.
ISBN
9781780764856
. Retrieved
14 June
2016
.
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Cramp, Karl; Mackaness, George (1938).
A History of the United Grand Lodge of NSW
. Angus & Robertson.
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"Lord Carrington"
. Retrieved
22 May
2018
.
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a
b
"Viscount Wendover Dead"
.
The Register
. Adelaide, South Australia. 21 May 1915. p. 6
. Retrieved
2 May
2012
.
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Adam Wood,
Swanson: The Life And Times Of A Victorian Detective
, Mango Books, London 2020, p. 440.
- ^
Adonis, Andrew
(May 2010).
"Carington, Charles Robert Wynn-, marquess of Lincolnshire (1843?1928)"
.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
. Oxford University Press
. Retrieved
13 June
2016
.
- ^
Tiggy Legge-Bourke
, a Guardian Unlimited special report from
The Guardian
dated 13 October 1999. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^
LEGGE-BOURKE, Sir Edward Alexander Henry
in
Who Was Who 1971?1980
(London, A. & C. Black, 1989 reprint:
ISBN
0-7136-3227-5
).
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Mosley, C. (ed.), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), vol. 1, p. 1039.
Bibliography
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- Adonis, Andrew
(December 1988). "Aristocracy, Agriculture and Liberalism: the Politics, Finances and Estates of the third Lord Carrington".
Historical Journal
.
31
(4).
- Chisholm, Hugh
, ed. (1911).
"Carrington, Charles Robert Wynn-Carington"
.
Encyclopædia Britannica
. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 408.
- Davenport-Nines, Richard. "A Radical Lord Chamberlain at a Tory Court: Lord Carrington, 1892?95."
The Court Historian
16.2 (2011): 205-225.
- Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921).
Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy
. 160A,
Fleet street
,
London
, UK:
Dean & Son
. p. 564.
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"Carington, Charles Robert (1843?1928)"
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
. Retrieved
22 April
2016
.
- Mayes, Leonard John (1960),
The History of Chairmaking in High Wycombe
, London: Routledge & K. Paul,
OCLC
4378040
- Venn, J. A. (1953).
Alumni Cantabrigienses
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(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). p. 545
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