Barons in the Peerage of Great Britain

Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (May 19, 1744 - October 10, 1792) was an English explorer. Phipps was at Eton College with Joseph Banks, but left early to go to sea with his uncle Captain the Hon. A. J. Hervey. In 1766 he sailed to Newfoundland as Lieutenant on HMS Niger. Banks accompanied him as ship's naturalist. On June 4, 1773 Phipps set off from Deptford on a voyage towards the North Pole. He had two boats, the Racehorse and the Carcass. Phipps took with him Dr Irving as naturalist a ...

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The Right Honourable William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (October 25, 1759 - January 12, 1834), was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. The son of Prime Minister George Grenville, Grenville studied at Eton, Christ Church, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, and entered the Commons in 1782 and soon became a close ally of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, serving in the government as Paymaster of the Forces from 1784 to 1789. In 1789 he served briefly as Speaker of the British House of Commons before, he entered ...

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Military Cross, 1945. Lord of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, 1959. Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, 1983. Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, 1985. Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 1988. Life peerage, as Baron Carington of Upton, 1999. ...

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Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington, Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington - Honours, Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington - Family, Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington - External link

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His protests against the measures of the Tory ministers were collected and published, as the Opinions of Lord Holland (1841), by Dr Moylan of Lincoln's Inn. Lord Holland's Foreign Reminiscences (1850) contain much amusing gossip from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. His Memoirs of the Whig Party (1852) is an important contemporary authority. His small work on Lope de Vega (1806) is still of some value. ...

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Henry Vassall-Fox 3rd Baron Holland, Henry Vassall-Fox 3rd Baron Holland - Biography, Henry Vassall-Fox 3rd Baron Holland - Politics, Henry Vassall-Fox 3rd Baron Holland - Writings, Henry Vassall-Fox 3rd Baron Holland - Reference

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Lord Carrington married Iona McClean on 25 April 1942. They have three children: The Hon. Alexandra Carington DL, (Norfolk), (born 1943), married 1965 Major Peter de Bunsen The Hon. Virginia Carington (born 1946), married 1973 (divorced 1979) Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe The Hon. Rupert Francis John Carington DL, (Buckinghamshire), (born 1948), married 1989 Daniela Diotallevi ...

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Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington, Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington - Honours, Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington - Family, Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington - External link

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