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'Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire', GCMG, PC (1843–1928) was a British Liberal politician and aristocrat.
Son of Robert John, 2nd Baron Carrington (d. 1868), and the Hon. Charlotte Augusta Drummond-Willoughby, sister of Alberic, 23rd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He sat in the House of Commons as a Liberal for High Wycombe from 1865 until he succeeded to the titles in 1868. He was Governor of New South Wales 1885–1890, Lord Chamberlain 1892–1895, and President of the Board of Agriculture between 1905–1911, having a seat in the cabinet in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith's ministries. He was created Earl Carrington and Viscount Wendover in 1895 and Marquess of Lincolnshire in 1912.
The Carrington baronies, "Baron Carrington", were conferred in 1796 on Robert Smith (1752–1838), Member of Parliament for Nottingham, a member of a famous banking family, the titles being suggested by one held from 1643 to 1706 in another family of Smith in no way connected. The 2nd baron married, as his second wife one of the two daughters of the 23rd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, and their son, through her, became in 1879 joint hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England. The 2nd Baron took the surname of Carrington, afterwards altered to Carington, instead of Smith.
The 1st and last Marquess of Lincolnshire, is the Great Uncle of the current Baron Carrington,
The Right Honourable Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC, JP, DL