948 Rupert Carington

Constituency : Buckinghamshire  1880-5

Rupert  took  over  from  Nathanael  Lambert  at  Buckinghamshire.

Rupert  was  the  son  of  Baron  Carington. He  joined  the  Grenadier  Guards  and  fought  in  the  Anglo-Zulu  War of  1879  as  a  lieutenant. He  won  the  Distinguished  Service  Order.

Rupert  was  a  commanding  officer  in  the  Boer  War.

Despite  being  a  third  son,  Rupert  succeeded  to  the  barony in  1928.

He  died  in  1929  aged  76. Mrs  Thatcher's  Foreign  Secretary  Lord  Carington  was  his  grandson.