Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

**Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington** (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018) was a British Conservative politician.

He served as British Defence Secretary between 1970 and 1974, Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982 and as the sixth Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. He was the last surviving member of the Cabinets of both Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

Carington died on 9 July 2018, aged 99.

## Other websites

- Announcement of his taking the oath under his new title at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 17 November 1999
- Lord Carrington's views on the EU from the Daily Telegraph
- Thatcher's First Cabinet

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: Right Honourable#United Kingdom, The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Carrington
- **image**: Peter, 6th Baron Carrington cropped.JPG
- **imagesize**: 140px
- **office**: Secretary General of NATO, 6th Secretary General of NATO
- **term start**: 25 June 1984
- **term end**: 1 July 1988
- **predecessor**: Joseph Luns
- **successor**: Manfred Wörner
- **office2**: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- **primeminister2**: Margaret Thatcher
- **term start2**: 4 May 1979
- **term end2**: 5 April 1982
- **predecessor2**: David Owen
- **successor2**: Francis Pym, Baron Pym, Francis Pym
- **office3**: Department of Energy (United Kingdom), Secretary of State for Energy
- **primeminister3**: Edward Heath
- **term start3**: 8 January 1974
- **term end3**: 4 March 1974
- **predecessor3**: Position established
- **successor3**: Eric Varley, Baron Varley, Eric Varley
- **office4**: Secretary of State for Defence
- **primeminister4**: Edward Heath
- **term start4**: 20 June 1970
- **term end4**: 8 January 1974
- **predecessor4**: Denis Healey
- **successor4**: Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, Ian Gilmour
- **office5**: Leader of the House of Lords
- **primeminister5**: Alec Douglas-Home, Sir Alec Douglas-Home
- **term start5**: 20 October 1963
- **term end5**: 16 October 1964
- **predecessor5**: Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, The Viscount Hailsham
- **successor5**: Francis Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, The Earl of Longford
- **office6**: Minister without Portfolio
- **primeminister6**: Alec Douglas-Home, Sir Alec Douglas-Home
- **term start6**: 20 October 1963
- **term end6**: 16 October 1964
- **predecessor6**: Bill Deedes
- **successor6**: George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, George Thomson
- **office7**: Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, First Lord of the Admiralty
- **primeminister7**: Harold Macmillan
- **term start7**: 14 October 1959
- **term end7**: 20 October 1963
- **predecessor7**: George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk, The Earl of Selkirk
- **successor7**: George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, The Earl Jellicoe
- **birth place**: Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
- **party**: Conservative Party (UK), Conservative
- **spouse**: Iona Maclean
- **children**: Alexandra
 Virginia
 Rupert
- **alma mater**: Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Sandhurst
- **allegiance**: British Empire
- **branch**: British Army
- **unit**: Grenadier Guards
- **battles**: World War II
- **serviceyears**: 1939–1949
(inactive from 1945)
- **rank**: Major (United Kingdom), Major (Hon.)
Captain (armed forces), Captain
- **awards**:  Military Cross