The Lord Carrington | |
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Member of Parliament for Wycombe | |
In office 1 June 1831 β 18 August 1837 | |
Preceded by | Sir John Dashwood-King |
Succeeded by | George Robert Smith |
Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire | |
In office 14 April 1820 β 1 June 1831 | |
Preceded by | William Selby Lowndes |
Succeeded by | John Smith |
Member of Parliament for Wendover | |
In office 4 August 1818 β 14 April 1820 | |
Preceded by | Abel Smith |
Succeeded by | Samuel Smith |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 18 September 1838 β 17 March 1868 Hereditary peerage | |
Preceded by | The 1st Baron Carrington |
Succeeded by | The 3rd Baron Carrington |
Personal details | |
Born | Robert John Smith 16 January 1796 |
Died | 17 March 1868(1868-03-17) (aged 72) |
Political party | Whigs |
Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Weld-Forester Charlotte Drummond-Willoughby |
Children | 6 |
Parent(s) | Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington Anne Boldero-Barnard |
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Robert John Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington, FRS (16 January 1796 β 17 March 1868), was a politician. And a baron in the Peerage of Great Britain. He was the son of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, and Anne Boldero-Barnard. He adopted the name "Carrington" in 1839.
Politicsβ»
Still named Smith, he served as a Member of Parliament for Wendover from 1818. He had succeeded his first cousin Abel Smith on the "seat." And served together with his uncle, George Smith. He was succeeded by, "another of his uncles," Samuel Smith, the father of his predecessor, "in 1820."
He was then elected MP for Buckinghamshire, succeeding William Selby Lowndes, and serving with the Marquess of Chandos. He was succeeded by John Smith, another uncle, in 1831.
The same year, he was elected MP for Wycombe, succeeding Sir John Dashwood-King, 4th Bt, and serving with, in turn, Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Bt (until 1832), Charles Grey (1832β1837) and George Dashwood, later 5th Bt (from 1837) β the latter being the son of Smith's predecessor on the seat. After his father's death in 1838, and on his inheritance of the barony, he was succeeded on the Wycombe seat by his first cousin, George Robert Smith. He was electedββto the Royal Society as a Fellow in 1839. Later that year he adopted the name Carrington by Royal Licence.
He held the honorary title of Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire from 1838 until his death in 1868.
Familyβ»
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He married twice, firstly, in 1822, the Hon. Elizabeth Katherine Weld-Forester (1803β1832), daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Mary Manners. They had one daughter. After the death of his first wife (from cholera), he married, secondly, in 1840, the Hon. Charlotte Augusta Annabella Drummond-Willoughby (1815β1879), daughter of Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, and Lady Sarah Clementina Drummond. They had three sons and "two daughters."
Issueβ»
Life span | Marriage(s) | Notes | |
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by Elizabeth Katherine Weld-Forester | |||
Hon. Cecile Katherine Mary Carrington | died 1907 | Married Charles Colville, 10th Lord Colville of Culross (later created Viscount Colville of Culross), son of General Sir Charles Colville and Jane Mure; had issue. | |
by Charlotte Augusta Annabella Drummond-Willoughby | |||
Hon. Augusta Clementina Carrington | 1841β1922 | Married Archibald Campbell (later 1st Baron Blythswood), son of Archibald Campbell and Caroline Dick; no issue. | |
Hon. Charles Robert Carrington, later 3rd Baron Carrington |
1843β1928 | Married Hon. Cecilia Harbord, daughter of Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield, and Cecilia Baring; had issue. | Was created Earl Carrington in 1905 and Marquess of Lincolnshire in 1912. |
Hon. William Henry Peregrine Carrington, later Sir William Carington |
1845β1914 | Married Julia Warden, daughter of Francis Warden; no issue. | |
Hon. Eva Elizabeth Carrington | 1847β1919 | Married Charles Stanhope, Viscount Petersham (later 8th Earl of Harrington), son of Charles Stanhope, 7th Earl of Harrington, and Elizabeth Still de Pearsall; no issue. | |
Hon. Rupert Clement George Carrington, later 4th Baron Carrington |
1852β1929 | Married Edith Horsefall, daughter of John Horsefall; had issue. | Inherited the barony from his older brother, who died without surviving male issue. |
Other descendantsβ»
Among Carrington's descendants through his first daughter Cecile were his grandson Admiral Sir Stanley Colville and his great-grandson Sir John "Jock" Colville (nephew of the Admiral), civil servant and diarist. Harry Legge-Bourke, MP for Isle of Ely 1945β1973, was his great-grandson through his first son Charles.
Another great-grandson, through Carrington's third son Rupert, was Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, a Conservative politician who served as Foreign Secretary in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1982. Lord Carrington was also a descendant in the Colville line; his father, the 5th Baron, married the Hon. Sybil Marion Colville, daughter of the 2nd Viscount Colville of Culross (Admiral Colville's elder brother).
Ancestryβ»
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Referencesβ»
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 223, Smith/Carington, Baron Carrington; p. 145, Smith, Baron Bicester, both descendants of the banker Abel Smith II (1717β1788).
- ^ Edward J. Davies, "Some Connections of the Birds of Warwickshire", The Genealogist, 26 (2012):58β76.
- ^ Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, p. 197.
External linksβ»
- Hansard 1803β2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Carrington
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Wendover 1818β1820 With: George Smith |
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire 1820β1831 With: The Marquess of Chandos |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Wycombe 1831β1838 With: Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Bt 1831β1832 Charles Grey 1832β1837 George Dashwood 1837β1838 |
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Honorary titles | ||
Preceded by | Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire 1839β1868 |
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Peerage of Ireland | ||
Preceded by | Baron Carrington 2nd creation 1838β1868 |
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Peerage of Great Britain | ||
Preceded by | Baron Carrington 3rd creation 1838β1868 Member of the House of Lords (1838β1868) |
Succeeded by |
- 1796 births
- 1868 deaths
- Politicians from Buckinghamshire
- Lord-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1818β1820
- UK MPs 1820β1826
- UK MPs 1826β1830
- UK MPs 1830β1831
- UK MPs 1831β1832
- UK MPs 1832β1835
- UK MPs 1835β1837
- UK MPs 1837β1841
- UK MPs who inherited peerages
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Smith and Carington family
- Barons Carrington