Charles Carrington (priest)
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Charles Walter Carrington (1859–1941) was Dean of Christchurch[1] from 1913 to 1927.[2]
He was born in Bath, son of Henry Edmund Carrington, proprietor and editor of the Bath Chronicle, and was educated at the University of Cambridge.[3] After an earlier career as an engineer he was ordained in 1888.[4] After a curacy in Notting Hill he was Mission Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield then Vicar of Christ Church, West Bromwich.[5] He was Principal[6] of the Upper Department[7] at Christ's College, Christchurch[8] until his appointment as Dean.[9]
He died on 30 July 1941.[10] One of his sons, Philip, was Bishop of Quebec and Metropolitan of Canada;[11] while another, Christopher, died in the First World War.[12] His son Charles fought in both World Wars and became Professor of Commonwealth Relations at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.[13]
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