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 CARRINGTON 65 24 Apr. 1896, he took the name of Wynn-Can-ington in lieu of that of Carington. Pres. of the Board of Agriculture 1905; K.G. 15 Oct. 1906. He acted in his turn(^) as Lord Great Chamberlain C') at the Coronation of George V. On 26 Feb. 1912, he was cr. MARQUESS OF LINCOLN- SHIRE. He w., 16 July 1878 at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall,(=) Cecilia Margaret, ist da. of Charles (Harbord), 5th Baron Suffield, by Cecilia Annetta, da. of Henry Baring. She was i^. 15 June 1856, at 11 Berkeley Sq. [Albert Edward Samuel Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, styled Viscount Wendover, h. at 50 Grosvenor Str., 24 Apr., and bap. 5 June 1895, at Wycombe parish church, Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, being one of his sponsors by proxy. Ed. at Eton.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 16,128 acres in Bucks; 9,656 in CO. Lincoln; and 25 in Beds. Total 25,809 acres, valued at £4.2,2^4. a year. Principal Residence. — In 1883, Wycombe Abbey, near High Wycombe, Bucks, now (1912) a girls' school. In 191 1, Gwy-dyr Castle, Llanrwst, North Wales. ('^) Note. — The Bucks estate was bought by the ist Baron from Lord Shelburne, and was sold a few years ago. CARRINGTON OF WOTTON and CARRINGTON OF BURFORD [i.e. BARREFORE] BARONY [E.] I. Charles Smyth, s. and h. of Sir Francis S., of Wootton Wawen, co. Warwick, and of Ashby Fol- VISCOUNTCY [I.] ville and Queenborough, co. Leicester {d. 6 May .., 1629), by Anne, da. of Thomas Markham, of '^•^' Ollerton, Notts, was aged 21 in 16 19, the date of the Heraldic Visitation of co. Leicester, receiving knight- hood on 28 June in that year. He was a zealous Royalist and gave con- siderable aid to the King. On 31 Oct. 1643, he was cr. "BARON CARRINGTON OF WOTTON, co. Warwick," and, a few days after- wards, on 4 Nov. 1643 was cr. "VISCOUNT CARRINGTON OF BURFORD " [i.e. BARREFORE] in the Province of Connaught [I.].^) (=>) The order of the Court had been that the office should be filled in turn by the Earl of Ancaster, the Marquess Cholmondeley, and the Earl Carrington. V.G. (*>) For this and other great offices of state see vol. ii, Appendix D. ("=) No less than 10 members of the royal family, including the Prince and Princess of Wales, were present at the ceremony. V.G. ('^) The Marquess purchased, from the Earl of Ancaster, Gwydyr Castle and the estates, formerly belonging to their common ancestors, the family of Wynn. V.G. (=) The only record of either of these creations is in Black's Docquets of Letters Patent in the years 1642-46; Commissioners having been ordered by the Parliament to cancel and deface all patents conferring honours after 4 Jan. 1 641. See vol. ii, p. 454, note "b." The title of "Carrington" was chosen from a tradi- tional descent of the family from a mythical Sir Michael Carington or Carrington, standard bearer to Richard I in the Holy Land, whose alleged descendant, one John 9