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.

References

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

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