Charles Carrington

Charles Edmund Carrington, MC (21 April 1897 – 21 June 1990) was a scholar, Professor of History at Cambridge University, Educational Secretary to Cambridge University Press and a historian specializing in the British Empire and Commonwealth, a Professor of Commonwealth Relations at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the author of a number of books academic, learned and biographical. He was a decorated volunteer British Army officer, in World War I and again in World War II. Personal life Carrington was born in West Bromwich, then part of Staffordshire, England. He moved to New Zealand with his family where his father C. W. Carrington became Dean of Christchurch. His son married 1. Cecil Grace MacGregor 1932 (dissolved in 1954) 2. Maysie Cuthbert Robertson 1955. He is remembered on the Imperial War Museums' We remember Charles Edward Carrington site. Education He was educated at Christ's College, New Zealand and Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1921; MA 1929).