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Carrington, Henry Beebee

(Encyclopedia) Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824–1912, U.S. army officer and historian, b. Wallingford, Conn., grad. Yale, 1845, and afterward studied at Yale Law School. Carrington ably reorganized the…

Carington, Peter

(Encyclopedia) Carington, Peter: see Carrington, Peter Carington, 6th Baron.

Carrington, Leonora

(Encyclopedia) Carrington, Leonora, 1917–2011, English-born Mexican surrealist painter, novelist, and eccentric, studied art at Ozenfant Academy, London (1935–38). From a wealthy Anglo-Irish family,…

Carrington, Peter Carington, 6th Baron

(Encyclopedia) Carrington, Peter Carington, 6th Baron, 1919–2018, British politician. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he succeeded to the peerage in 1938. After serving with distinction in World War…

Edward CARRINGTON, Congress, VA (1748-1810)

CARRINGTON, Edward, a Delegate from Virginia; born in Goochland County, Va., February 11, 1748; member of the county committee in 1775 and 1776; served in the Revolutionary Army; commissioned…

Edward Carrington CABELL, Congress, FL (1816-1896)

CABELL Edward Carrington , a Representative from Florida; born in Richmond, Va., February 5, 1816; attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., in 1832 and 1833…

Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden

(Encyclopedia) Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden, 1714–94, British jurist. Appointed (1761) chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, he earned wide popularity as a result of his ruling in Entick v.…

1995 Cannes Film Festival

Palme d'OrUnderground, Emir Kusturica (France, Germany and Hungary)Grand PrizeUlysses' Gaze, Theo Angelopoulos (Greece, France and Italy)Best ActorJonathan Price, Carrington (United Kingdom…