Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington
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Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of...
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Stone set by Lord Carrington, while High Commissioner to Australia, at All Saints Church, Canberra.
Carington (then Foreign Secretary) and US Secretary of State Alexander Haig meet in 1981 during a visit by Margaret Thatcher to the US.
Carrington (then NATO Secretary General) with West German Foreign Minister Genscher in Bonn, 1984
Lord Carrington, as Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, in procession to St George's Chapel in 2006Awards 8
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Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. In Margaret Thatcher's first government, he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe. Carington later served as the Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Bilderberg Group's meetings from 1990 to 1998.
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