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5 days ago · Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, British politician who was secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from 1984 to 1988. He previously had served as foreign secretary (1979–82) under Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Learn more about his life and career.
5 days ago · The shining example of accountability set by Lord Carrington, when he resigned as foreign secretary three days after the Falklands invasion by Argentina, feels almost quaint in today’s world.
1 day ago · Deaths: 1988 Barbara Woodhouse, animal trainer; 2002 Rod Steiger, US actor; 2016 Jackie Mcinally, Scottish footballer; 2018 Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington KG, foreign secretary 1979-82; 2019 Rip Torn, American actor; 2020 Johnny Beattie, Scottish actor and comedian.
3 days ago · Her parents were British Army officer-turned-businessman Major Bruce Shand and his wife The Hon. Rosalind Cubitt, daughter of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe. Camilla has a younger sister, Annabel Elliot, and had a younger brother, Mark Shand. One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Alice Keppel, was a mistress of King Edward VII.
5 days ago · 1919 – Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO (d. 2018) 1923 – V. C. Andrews , American author, illustrator, and painter (d. 1986) [91]
6 days ago · His great-grandson, Sir Augustus Cholmondeley Gough-Calthorpe, the sixth baron, died 22 July 1910. He was succeeded in the title by his brother Sir Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe.
3 days ago · He married Mary, daughter of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham and 6th Earl of Winchilsea, and at his death in 1756 was succeeded by their fifth but only surviving son, Charles Watson Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, the eminent Whig statesman.
