Peter Carington
British Conservative politician and peer
Died when: 99 years 33 days (1189 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC, DL (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018), 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 racial conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe.
Carrington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands.He took full responsibility for the failure to foresee this and resigned.
As NATO secretary general, he helped prevent a war between Greece and Turkey during the 1987 Aegean crisis.Following the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, Carrington was created a life peer as Baron Carington of Upton.
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