Rupert Carington, 7th Baron Carrington

The Right Honourable
The Lord Carrington
DL
Lord Carrington in 2024
Lord Great Chamberlain
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 September 2022
MonarchCharles III
Preceded byThe 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
4 December 2018
as an elected hereditary peer
Preceded byThe 5th Baron Northbourne
Incumbent
Ex officio as Lord Great Chamberlain
8 September 2022
Preceded byThe 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley
Personal details
Born
Rupert Francis John Carington

(1948-12-02) 2 December 1948 (age 76)
Political partyCrossbench
Spouse
Daniela Diotallevi
​
(m. 1989)​
Children3
Parents
EducationEton College
Alma materUniversity of Bristol

Rupert Francis John Carington, 7th Baron Carrington (born 2 December 1948), is a British banker, hereditary peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords.

Lord Carrington has served as Lord Great Chamberlain of England since the accession of Charles III in September 2022. In that role, he took part in the coronation of Charles III and Camilla.[1]

Early life

Carrington was born in 1948 as the third child and only son of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919–2018), and his wife Iona née McClean (1920–2009).[2] His father was at the time in the beginning of his political career and would later hold several prominent positions, including those of Defence Secretary in the Heath ministry and Foreign Secretary in the first Thatcher ministry, and Secretary General of NATO.

He was educated at Eton College, and then the University of Bristol, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree.[3]

Carrington has two sisters, Alexandra (born 1943), married to Captain Peter de Bunsen,[4] and Virginia (born 1946), married to Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe (divorced).[5]

His maternal grandfather was civil engineer and aviator Sir Francis McClean.[6] His patrilineal ancestor Thomas Smith was the founder of Smith's Bank.[7]

Career

Carrington worked at the merchant bank Morgan, Grenfell & Co. for seventeen years[8] before starting his own financial advisory business, Rupert Carington Limited, in 1987.[9][10] He is chairman of Vietnam Infrastructure Ltd. and of Schroder AsiaPacific Fund,[11] and is an international adviser to the LGT Group.[8]

He succeeded his father as Baron Carrington in July 2018,[3] and became a member of the House of Lords in December of that year, after winning a crossbench hereditary peers' by-election, following the retirement of Lord Northbourne.[12]

On the accession of Charles III in 2022, Carrington became Lord Great Chamberlain of England,[13] according to the hereditary rotation of the office among three noble families.[14]

Personal life

Carrington married Daniela Diotallevi on 12 September 1989; they have three children:[15]

  • Hon. Robert Carington (born 7 December 1990, heir apparent)
  • Hon. Francesca Aurora Carington (born 24 July 1993)
  • Hon. Isabella Iona Carington (born 19 May 1995)

Honours

Lord Carrington was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Buckinghamshire in November 1999.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Coronation order of service in full". BBC News. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  2. ^ Langdon, Julia (10 July 2018). "Lord Carrington obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b Burke's Peerage, volume 1 (2003), p. 706.
  4. ^ www.burkespeerage.com
  5. ^ "Lord Ashcombe - obituary". The Telegraph. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  6. ^ Hon. Rupert Francis John Carrington, gen.cookancestry.com.
  7. ^ J. Leighton Boyce, Smith's the Bankers 1658–1958 (1958).
  8. ^ a b Rupert Francis John Carington, bloomberg.com.
  9. ^ Rupert Carington Limited, beta.companieshouse.gov.uk.
  10. ^ Rupert Carington Limited, beta.companieshouse.gov.uk.
  11. ^ Rupert Francis John Carington, www.4-traders.com.
  12. ^ "Crossbench hereditary peers' by-election, November 2018: result" (PDF). House of Lords. 28 November 2018.
  13. ^ Dora Davies-Evitt, The Marquess of Cholmondeley replaced by Lord Carrington as Lord Great Chamberlain, Tatler, 13 September 2022.
  14. ^ "Position of the Lord Great Chamberlain following the demise of the monarch (Freedom of Information request)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  15. ^ Carington, Rupert Francis John, Webb-site Who's Who.
  16. ^ "No. 55667". The London Gazette. 15 November 1999. p. 12117.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Baron Carrington
2nd creation
2018–present 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Robert Carington
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baron Carrington
3rd creation
2018–present 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Robert Carington
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
2018–present 		Incumbent
Order of precedence in England and Wales
Preceded by Gentlemen
as Lord Great Chamberlain 		Succeeded byas Earl Marshal
Order of precedence in Northern Ireland
Preceded by Gentlemen
as Lord Great Chamberlain 		Succeeded byas Earl Marshal
Court offices
Preceded by Lord Great Chamberlain
2022–present 		Incumbent