Background
He was the son of Codrington Carrington, of the Blackmoor estate on Barbados, and the eldest daughter of the Review Edmund Morris, rector of Nutshalling, the friend of Lady Hervey. And was born at Longwood, Hampshire, on 22 October 1769.
He was the son of Codrington Carrington, of the Blackmoor estate on Barbados, and the eldest daughter of the Review Edmund Morris, rector of Nutshalling, the friend of Lady Hervey. And was born at Longwood, Hampshire, on 22 October 1769.
He was educated at Winchester College and called to the bar at the Middle Temple on 10 February 1792.
Carrington returned to England for health reasons. in 1799. In 1800, still in England, he was called on to prepare a code of laws for Ceylon, and was then appointed the first chief justice of the supreme court of judicature that had been created. He was knighted before he embarked on his outward voyage.
In 1806 Carrington was compelled by bad health to resign his post, and declined other colonial appointments.
Having purchased an estate in Buckinghamshire, he became a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of that county, where he acted for many years as chairman of the quarter sessions. In June 1826 Carrington was elected Tory Member of Parliament for Saint Mawes, which he continued to represent till 1831.
During his last years he resided mainly at Street Helier in Jersey. He died at Exmouth on 28 November 1849.
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He was created Doctorate.C.L. and elected Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and honorary member of the Société Française Statistique Universelle.