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Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (born 6 June 1919) is 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 is the last surviving member of the 1951–55 government of Winston Churchill, and of the Cabinets of both Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home. 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, ''of Upton in the County of Nottinghamshire'' to enable him to continue to sit there. Carrington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina. He took full responsibility for the complacency and failures in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to foresee this development and resigned. However, as Secretary General of NATO, he played a very constructive role in preventing a war between Greece and Turkey (both members of the Alliance) in March 1987, having the trust and respect of both Andreas Papandreou of Greece and Turgut Özal of Turkey.〔http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/world/greeks-and-turks-ease-aegean-crisis.html〕 ==Background, education and military career== Carrington is the only son of Rupert Carington, 5th Baron Carrington, by his wife Sybil Marion Colville, a daughter of Charles Colville, 2nd Viscount Colville of Culross. He is a great-nephew of the Liberal statesman Charles Robert Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire and also of the politician and courtier Sir William Carington.〔〕 He was educated at two independent schools: Sandroyd School from 1928–1932, at the time based in the town of Cobham, Surrey, and Eton College, followed by the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Following Sandhurst, Carrington was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards as a second lieutenant on 26 January 1939. He served with the regiment during the Second World War, he was promoted lieutenant on 1 January 1941, and later rose to the rank of temporary captain and acting major, and was awarded the Military Cross (MC) on 1 March 1945. After the war, Carrington remained in the army until 1949.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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