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CARRINGTON 63 BULCOT LODGE [I.], and on 20 Oct. 1 797 was cr. BARON CARRING- TON OF UPTON, CO. Nottingham [G.B.]. F.R.S. 29 May 1800; Capt. of Deal Castle, 1802-38; F.S.A. 16 Apr. 18 12; Pres. of the London Institution 1812-27; LL.D. Cambridge 5 July 18 19. He»2., istly, 6 July 1780, at Tottenham, Midx., Anne, ist da. of Lewyns Boldero- Barnard, of Cave Castle, co. York, by Anne, da. of William Popplewell, of Monk Hill, near Pontefract. She d. at Whitehall, 9, and was bur. 19 Feb. 1827, at St. Peter's, Nottingham, aged 70. He m., 2ndly, 19 Jan. 1836, at Bath, Somerset, Charlotte, widow of the Rev. Walter Trevelyan, Vicar of Henbury, 3rd da. of John Hudson, of Bessingby, co. York, by Susanna, 2nd da. of Sir George Trevelyan, 3rd Bart. He d. at White- hall, 18 Sep., and was bur. 3 Oct. 1838, at Wycombe, Bucks, aged 86. C") Will dat. 22 July 1836, pr. 2 Nov. 1838, under ^120,000. His widow, who was b. i May 1770, at Bessingby, d. 22 Apr. 1849, at Bath. Will pr. July 1849. II. 1838. 2. Robert John (Smith, afterwards Carrington), Baron Carrington of Upton [G.B.], fe'c, only s. and h., by 1st wife, b. 16 Jan. 1796; was ed. at Christ's Coll. Cambridge, M.A. 18 15. He was M.P. (Whig) forWendoveri8i8-2o; for Bucks 1820-31; and for High Wycombe 183 1-38. () Lord Lieut, of Bucks 1839 ^'1^ his death; F.R.S. 14 Feb. 1839. By Royal lie. 26 Aug. 1839, he and his issue took the name of Carrington in lieu of that of Smith, in compliance with an of Abel Collin, of Nottingham, to which match apparently the family owed their greatness, as the griffin in the coat of Collin forms the chief charge in the coat of Smith granted in the i8th century to their more distinguished descendants. G.E.C. See J. H. Round's Peerage and Pedigree, vol. ii, pp. 213-220, where the true descent of this family is shewn to have been established by one of its own members, Augustus Smith, who describes it as "altogether plebeian in its source." Although retaining Carington as its surname, the family has now abandoned any claim to a Carrington descent. V.G. (^) Maria Edgeworth describes him as " most amiable and benevolent, without any species of pretension, thinking the best that can be thought of everything and everybody." His unobtrusive benevolence is alluded to by Cowper in The Task, Book IV:— "I mean the man, who when the distant poor Need help, denies them nothing but his name." "His character was without reproach, and his fortune ample, but he possessed no parliamentary talents." He was raised to the English peerage by Pitt, "not however, as was well known, without experiencing a long resistance on the part of the King" on account of his being engaged in trade. Wraxall, Posth. Memoirs, vol. i, p. 66-68, where it is insinuated that he gave pecuniary assistance to Pitt, but Carrington in a letter to Thomas Grenville, dated 7 Aug. 1836, expressly states that "during the twenty five years in which I enjoyed Mr. Pitt's friendship, not only no money trans- actions ever passed between us but not a single word of allusion to such a subject was ever spoken by either of us." V.G. () As a peer, though a Liberal, he opposed the Repeal of the Corn Laws. V.G.