| The Most Honourable The Marquess of Lincolnshire KG, GCMG, PC, DL, JP |
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| Governor of New South Wales | |
| In office 12 December 1885 – 3 November 1890 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | Lord Augustus Loftus |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Jersey |
| President of the Board of Agriculture | |
| In office 10 December 1905 – 23 October 1911 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII George V |
| Prime Minister | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman H. H. Asquith |
| Preceded by | Hon. Ailwyn Fellowes |
| Succeeded by | Walter Runciman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 May 1843 Whitehall, London |
| Died | 13 June 1928 Daws Hill House, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Hon. Cecilia Harbord (1856-1934) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire KG, GCMG, PC, DL, JP (16 May 1843 – 13 June 1928), known as the Lord Carrington from 1868 to 1895 and as the Earl Carrington from 1895 to 1912, was a British Liberal politician and aristocrat.
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Born at Whitehall, London, Lincolnshire was the eldest son of Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington, by his wife the Hon. Charlotte Augusta Drummond-Willoughby, daughter of Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby and sister of Albyric Drummond-Willoughby, 23rd Baron Willoughby de Eresby. The Hon. Sir William Carington and Rupert Carington, 4th Baron Carrington were his younger brothers while Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington is his great-nephew. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] On his mother's death in 1879 he became joint hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England. Born Robert Carrington, he assumed by Royal license the surname of Carington in 1880. In 1896 he assumed by Royal license the surname of Wynn-Carington.
Lord Lincolnshire sat in the House of Commons as a Liberal for High Wycombe from 1865 until he succeeded his father in 1868. He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1881 to 1885 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1881. He was Governor of New South Wales between 1885 and 1890 and was appointed a GCMG in June 1885. He again held office under Gladstone and later Lord Rosebery as Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 1892 to 1895. The latter year he was created Viscount Wendover, of Chepping Wycombe in the County of Buckingham, and Earl Carrington. After the Liberals returned to power in 1905 he served as President of the Board of Agriculture between 1905 and 1911 and as Lord Privy Seal between 1911 and 1912, with a seat in the cabinet in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith's ministries. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1906 and in 1912 he was further honoured when he was made Marquess of Lincolnshire.[2]
Lord Lincolnshire married the Hon. Cecilia Margaret Harbord, daughter of Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield, in 1878. They had one son and five daughters. His only son, Albert Edward Charles Robert Wynn Carrington, Viscount Wendover (1895-1915), was killed in the First World War.[3] Lord Lincolnshire died in June 1928, aged 85, when the marquessate, earldom and viscountcy became extinct. He was succeeded in the baronies of Carrington by his younger brother, Rupert Carington, 4th Baron Carrington. The Marchioness of Lincolnshire died in October 1934, aged 78.
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