Background
The son of Charles Carrington and Dora Carrington, and brother of the artist Dora Carrington, Noel Carrington was born in Hereford in 1895.
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The son of Charles Carrington and Dora Carrington, and brother of the artist Dora Carrington, Noel Carrington was born in Hereford in 1895.
He was educated at Bedford School and at Christ Church, Oxford.
He was the author of books on design and on recreation and also worked for and Penguin Books. In the 1920s he went out to India on behalf of Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK to establish a branch office there. They had three children, Paul, Joanna and Jane, and lived in Hampstead until soon after 1945 when they moved to Lambourn, Berkshire, to farm at Long Acre.
He died on 11 April 1989, aged 94.
Geoffrey Cumberlege and Noel Carrington replaced East. V. Rieu in the management of the Indian branches of in 1920. Noel got Dora to illustrate his Stories Retold edition of Don Quixote for the Indian market.
Their father, Charles Carrington, had been a railway engineer in India in the nineteenth century. Noel Carrington"s unpublished memoir of his six years in India is in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library.
By 1915 there were makeshift depots at Madras and Calcutta.
In 1920 Noel Carrington went to Calcutta to set up a proper branch. There he became friendly with Edward Thompson who involved him in the abortive scheme to produce the "Oxford Book of Bengali Verse".