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LORD CARRINGTON Papers, 1860-1928 Reels M917-32 AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT LORD CARRINGTON Papers, 1860-1928 Reels M917-32 Brigadier A.A. Llewellyn Palmer The Manor House Great Somerford Chippenham, Wiltshire National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales Filmed: 1972 CONTENTS Page 3 Biographical note 4 Selected speeches, letters and recollections 6 Australian correspondence, 1885-1918 8 Australian papers, 1877-91 9 Newspaper cuttings and printed works, 1882-1915 11 General correspondence, 1885-1928 14 Portraits 14 Miscellaneous papers, 1860-1914 17 Diaries of Lady Carrington, 1881-1913 19 Diaries of Lord Carrington, 1888-93 2 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Charles Robert Carrington (1843-1928), 3rd Baron Carrington (succeeded 1868), 1st Earl Carrington (created 1895), 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire (created 1912), was born in London. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. As a schoolboy, he was introduced to the Prince of Wales and they were to be close friends for over fifty years. Carrington was the Liberal member for High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire in 1865-68. He became a captain in the Royal House Guards in 1869 and in 1875-76 was aide-de-camp to the Prince of Wales on his tour of India. In 1881 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Buckinghamshire Infantry. In 1878 he married Cecilia (Lily) Harbord, the daughter of Baron Suffield. In 1885, at the urging of the Prince of Wales, Carrington was appointed governor of New South Wales. With his wife and three daughters, he arrived in Sydney in December 1885 and they remained in the colony for almost five years. The Carringtons were a popular couple and generous hosts, especially during the celebrations of Queen Victoria’s jubilee in 1887 and the New South Wales centenary celebrations in 1888. On account of her young children (a fourth daughter was born in 1889), Lady Carrington mostly remained in Sydney and Moss Vale, but Carrington travelled widely in New South Wales and visited every Australian colony apart from Western Australia, as well as New Zealand and Norfolk Island. At home, he had to deal with the usual political instability, with five changes of ministry in five years, but he was tactful in his relations with ministers and parliamentarians. For most of his term, the premier was the ageing Sir Henry Parkes, with whom he had good relations. He supported Parkes in the initiatives that led to the first Federation Conference in 1890. Carrington and his family returned to England and their home, Wycombe Abbey, in December 1890. He was a member of the London County Council in 1892-1907. He remained a strong supporter of the Liberal Party and was lord chamberlain in 1892-95, president of the Board of Agriculture in 1905- 11 and lord privy seal in 1911-12. He was lord-lieutenant of Buckinghamshire in 1915-23. By royal licence, the family name was changed to Carington in 1880 and Wynn-Carington in 1896. Lord Carrington’s only son, Lord Wendover, was killed in France in 1916. On Carrington’s death in 1928, the marquessate and earldom became extinct. The barony passed to his brother, Rupert Carington, who died the following year. Rupert’s grandson, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, was High Commissioner to Australia in 1956-59 and the British Foreign Secretary in 1979-82. 3 LORD CARRINGTON Reel M917 Selected speeches, letters and recollections Speeches of Lord Carrington, 1879-1918. (4 vols.) Newspaper cuttings reporting speeches by Carrington, as well as speeches by others, bound in four volumes. Volume 1 1879-92 Copied complete Volume 2 1892-1903 Select pages: 1-3, 6, 8, 13-16, 18, 36, 95, 130-52, 161-66, 186, 196. Volume 3 1903-7 Select pages: 1-79. King Edward VII as I knew him for 55 years. (3 vols.) Volume 1 1855-90 Select: Typescript copies of letters from the Prince of Wales to Carrington in Australia and extracts from diaries of Lady Carrington referring to the Prince of Wales, 1885-90. Lord Rosebery as I knew him. (2 vols.) Volume 1 1878-98 Select: Notes by Carrington on his first association with Lord Rosebery (1878) and typescript copies of letters and telegrams from Rosebery to Carrington in Australia, 1885-90. Volume 2 1899-1912 Select: Typescript copies of letters from Rosebery and R.B. Haldane to Carrington and entries from Carrington’s diary, June 1900. 4 Typescript copies of a letter from Rosebery to Carrington and entries from Carrington’s diary, May- July 1903. Political letters to Lord Carrington. (2 vols.) Volume 2 1876-1908 Select: Typescript copies of letters from Sir Henry Holland, later Lord Knutsford, to Carrington in Australia, 1887-92. Typescript copies of letters from Edward Stanhope to Carrington in Australia, 1886-89. Letters from Carrington to his wife. (2 vols.) Volume 1 Select: Carrington (London) to Lady Carrington, 11 March 1885: advice from Sir Saul Samuel about Government House in Sydney and their voyage to Australia. (typescript copy) Miscellaneous papers. Select: Lord Normanby (Melbourne) to Carrington, 8 Feb. 1888. (typescript copy) Lord Normanby (Melbourne) to Carrington, 29 Dec. 1888 [ie 1887]. (typescript copy) Lord Normanby (Dorking) to Carrington, 19 Jan. 1887. (typescript copy) Congratulations to Lord and Lady Carrington on the birth of their son, 24 April 1895. Select: Letters and telegrams from Sydney, Bathurst, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Tonga, May 1895. Congratulations to Carrington on being made an earl, 23 July 1895. Select: Letters and telegrams from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, July 1895. The correspondents include Sir Frederick Darley (Sydney), Sir Anthony Brownless (Melbourne) and Sir Henry Parkes (Sydney). Congratulations and press cuttings on Carrington becoming a Cabinet minister, December 1905. 5 Select: Letters from H.E. Campbell (Burns, Philp & Co.) and Sir James Burns (Sydney), Dec. 1905-Jan. 1906. Congratulations and press cuttings on Carrington being made a K.G., Sept. 1906. Select: Letters from Sir Samuel Way (Adelaide), R. Muirhead Collins (London) and T.N. Fitzgerald (Melbourne), Oct. 1906. Recollections of my life from public school to the Privy Seal. Select: Contents page. Chapter 4. The story of a convict told to Lord Carrington by William Laidley of Sydney in 1889. Chapter 10. Letters from the front and from Lieut. Col. Rupert Carington, Commanding Officer of the New South Wales Bushmen, to Lord Carrington, 1901-2. Recollections of my life from public school to Privy Seal. (revised edition) Select: Contents page. Chapter 7. The story of a convict told to Lord Carrington by William Laidley of Sydney in 1889. Chapter 14. Letters from the front and from Lieut. Col. Rupert Carington, Commanding Officer of the New South Wales Bushmen, to Lord Carrington, 1901-2. Reel M918 Australian correspondence 1 Letters from governors and premiers George Dibbs, Premier of New South Wales, to Carrington, Jan. - March 1889. Sir Robert Hamilton, Governor of Tasmania, to Carrington, March 1887 –July 1892. Lord Carnarvon, former Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Carrington, Oct. 1887 - Feb. 1890. C.E. Davies (Grand Lodge of Tasmania) to Lincolnshire, 30 May 1918. Shadwell Clerke (United Grand Lodge of England) to Carrington, 29 June 1889. Lord Hopetoun, Governor of Victoria, to Carrington, Sept. 1889 - March 1892. 6 Lord Hopetoun (London) to Carrington, 7 May 1900. Lord Kintore, Governor of South Australia, to Carrington, Feb. 1889 – March 1892. Sir Henry Loch, Governor of Victoria and Cape Colony, to Carrington, June 1885 – Sept. 1892. Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of Queensland, to Carrington, Dec. 1886 – Aug. 1888. Sir Alfred Stephen (Sydney) to Carrington, Aug. 1888. (2 letters) Sir William Jervois, Governor of New Zealand, to Carrington, Jan. 1888 – March 1889. Sir Henry Norman, Governor of Queensland, to Carrington, May 1889 – Jan. 1891. Lord Onslow to Carrington, 4 March 1887. Lord Onslow, Governor of New Zealand, to Carrington, March 1889 – Jan. 1892. Lord Onslow (Clandon Park) to Carrington, 1906-14. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, to Carrington, Nov. 1886 – Dec. 1887. (bundle 1) Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, to Carrington, Jan. 1888 – April 1888. (bundle 2) Reel M919 Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, to Carrington, April – Dec. 1888. (bundle 2 contd.) Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, to Carrington, Jan. – June 1889. (bundle 3) Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, to Carrington, July – Dec. 1889. (bundle 4) Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, to Carrington, Jan. – June 1890. (bundle 5) Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, to Carrington, July 1890 – Nov. 1891. (bundle 6) Sir Henry Parkes (Sydney) to Carrington, Jan. 1892 – Oct. 1895. Sir William Robinson, Governor of South Australia, to Carrington, Feb. 1886 – Feb. 1889. Sir Samuel Way (Lieutenant Governor of South Australia) to Carrington, 28 March 1889. Lord Onslow (Melbourne) to Carrington, 7 April [1889]. Sir William Robinson, acting Governor of Victoria, to Carrington, May – Dec. 1889. Sir William Robinson (London) to Carrington, 1890-92. Sir William Robinson, Governor of Western Australia, to Carrington, Aug. 1892 – July 1894. Sir Hercules Robinson, former Governor of New South Wales, to Carrington, Jan. 1891 – Jan. 1892. Sir Alfred Stephen, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, to Carrington, Feb. 1886 – Nov. 1892. Reel M920 2 Australian letters, 1885-1900 7 The letters are arranged chronologically. The New South Wales correspondents include Sir Joseph Carruthers, Sir Frederick Darley, Lady Darley, Sir Robert Duff, Edward Eddy, William McMillan, Archbishop Patrick Moran, Laidley Mort, Daniel O’Connor, Sir George Reid, Sir John Robertson, Admiral Lord Charles Scott, Bruce Smith, Sir Alfred Stephen and B.R. Wise. Correspondents in other colonies include Richard Baker (Adelaide), Lord Brassey, Sir Frederick Napier Broome (Perth), John Douglas (Brisbane, Thursday Island), Major-General J.B. Edwards (Melbourne), Sir Arthur Gordon (Kandy), Lady Hamilton (Hobart), George Higinbotham (Melbourne), A.
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