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Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

1919 - 2018

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Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, (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 conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe. Carington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington has received more than 1,071,083 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington is the 13,426th most popular politician (down from 12,248th in 2019), the 3,376th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,242nd in 2019) and the 457th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 13,426 out of 15,577. Before him are Badri Patarkatsishvili, Anna, John Lyng, James Soong, Shahu I, and Manasseh Sogavare. After him are Nobuo Kishi, Lucius Postumius Albinus, Salvador Jovellanos, George Moscone, Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan, and Rexhep Mitrovica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 227. Before him are Milan Horvat, Axel von dem Bussche, Eugenia Charles, Jon Pertwee, Lance Macklin, and Mohammad Yunus Khalis. After him are R. M. Hare, Michel Déon, Roberto Bonomi, Richard Bergmann, Vicente Asensi, and Richard Scarry. Among people deceased in 2018, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 284. Before him are Kedarnath Singh, Bill Daily, Jerry Van Dyke, Mel Ramos, Neagu Djuvara, and Clint Walker. After him are Jon Hiseman, Soon-Tek Oh, D. J. Fontana, Nancy Wilson, Glenn Branca, and Pat Torpey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 3,376 out of 7,765. Before him are David Lloyd (1950), Nicholas Clay (1946), William Stukeley (1687), William Friese-Greene (1855), Peter Tait (1831), and Gavin Bryars (1943). After him are Fred Pentland (1883), Mike Figgis (1948), Anthony Head (1954), Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827), Robert Greene (1558), and John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (1431).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 457. Before him are Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778), Gayatri Devi (1919), Tony Benn (1925), Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557), and Jane Marcet (1769). After him are John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (1431), William Huskisson (1770), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Prince Frederick of Great Britain (1750), Emil Voigt (1883), and Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887).

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