Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

The Right Honourable The Lord Carrington KG GCMG CH MC PC DL
Carrington in 1984
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
Other ministerial offices Leader of the Opposition in the Lords Shadow Leader of the House of Lords In office 4 March 1974 – 4 May 1979 Leader Edward Heath Margaret Thatcher Preceded by The Lord Shackleton Succeeded by The Lord Peart In office 16 October 1964 – 20 June 1970 Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home Edward Heath Preceded by The Earl Alexander of Hillsborough Succeeded by The Lord Shackleton Secretary of State for Energy In office 8 January 1974 – 4 March 1974 Prime Minister Edward Heath Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Eric Varley Chairman of the Conservative Party In office 7 April 1972 – 4 March 1974 Leader Edward Heath Preceded by Peter Thomas Succeeded by William Whitelaw 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 Leader of the House of Lords Minister without Portfolio In office 20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964 Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home Preceded by The Viscount Hailsham Bill Deedes Succeeded by The Earl of Longford 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 26 May 1956 – 14 October 1959 Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan Preceded by Stephen Holmes Succeeded by Sir William Oliver Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence In office 18 October 1954 – 26 May 1956 Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden Preceded by Nigel Birch Succeeded by The Earl of Gosford Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food In office 5 November 1951 – 18 October 1954 Serving with Richard Nugent Prime Minister Sir 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
as a hereditary peer 6 June 1940 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 5th Baron Carrington
Succeeded by	Seat abolished[a]
as a life peer 17 November 1999 – 9 July 2018
Personal details
Born	Peter Alexander Rupert Carington (1919-06-06)6 June 1919 London, England
Died	9 July 2018(2018-07-09) (aged 99) Bledlow, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Iona McClean ​ ​ (m. 1942; died 2009)​
Children	3, including Rupert
Parent	Rupert Carington, 5th Baron Carrington (father)
Alma mater	Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch/service	British Army
Years of service	1939–1949 (inactive from 1945)
Rank	Major
Unit	Grenadier Guards
Battles/wars	Second World War
Awards	Military Cross
Service No.	85592

Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC, DL (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, Chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. In Margaret Thatcher's first government, he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe.

Carington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. He took full responsibility for the failure to foresee this and resigned. As NATO secretary general, he helped prevent a war between Greece and Turkey during the 1987 Aegean crisis.^[1]

Following the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, Carington was created a life peer as Baron Carington of Upton.

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