Rev. Codrington Carrington

Reportedly of Blackmoor, Barbados - an estate not yet traced by LBS. The History of Parliament entry for his son Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington, MP for St Mawes 1826-1831, says: 'His father was born in Bridgetown in 1749, educated at Eton and Cambridge, but apparently succeeded to the Barbados estates of an uncle and returned to the West Indies. No trace has been found of Codrington senior’s ordinations or benefices, though his style of Rev. is confirmed by the memorial inscription in St. Michael’s, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, to his widow; the date of his death is unknown.'

1. Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 15, 1768. S. of Paul, Counsellor, deceased, of Barbados [and Mary Blower]. B. Oct. 5, 1749, at St Michael's, Bridgetown, Barbados. School, Eton. His career is not easy to trace; he apparently inherited the estates of an uncle, Codrington Carrington, and returned to Barbados. Codrington Carrington, Esq., of Barbados [the member of the College] married Martha, dau. of the Rev. Edmund Morris, R. of Nutshalling, Hants., Nov. 25, 1768 [their son was presumably Codrington Edmund Carrington, afterwards Chief Justice of Ceylon, for whom see D.N.B.]. But it is not quite certain that the father of the Chief Justice was the member of St John's; Codrington Edmund Carrington's father at the time of his son's admission at the Middle Temple, Nov. 2, 1787, was described as the Rev. Codrington Carrington, of Llangattock, Co. Monmouth, but his ordinations have not been traced. The Rev. Codrington Carrington, of Llangattock, is probably identical with the Codrington Carrington, owner of The Chapel, Barbados, whose daughter, Catherine, married Major Charles Frederick Napier, R.A. This supposition seems borne out by the fact that Henry Carrington (of Caius), Dean of Bocking, is described in his obituary notices as cousin of Lord Napier, of Magdala. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV; Eton Coll. Reg.)

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/carrington-sir-codrington-1769-1849

1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online]