Name Frederick Carrington Rank Major General Children Dorothy Carrington | ||
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Born 23 August 1844Cheltenham ( 1844-08-23 ) Commands held Frontier Light Horse2nd Mounted Infantry Battles/wars Ninth Frontier WarBasuto Gun WarFirst Matabele WarMatabele RebellionSecond Anglo-Boer War Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the BathKnight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Battles and wars Xhosa Wars, Basuto Gun War, First Matabele War, Second Matabele War, Second Boer War Similar People Dorothy Carrington, Cecil Rhodes, Robert Baden‑Powell - 1st Baron | ||
Major General Sir Frederick Carrington, (23 August 1844, Cheltenham – 22 March 1913, Cheltenham), was a British soldier and friend of Cecil John Rhodes. He acquired fame by crushing the 1896 Matabele rebellion.
Biography
Carrington was educated at Cheltenham College and joined the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1864.
In 1875, he arrived in South Africa where he raised and commanded the Mounted Infantry in the Griqualand West expedition and the Frontier Light Horse in the Ninth Frontier War in 1877.
He commanded the Transvaal Volunteer Force against Sekhukhune in 1878–1879 and the Cape Mounted Riflemen in the Basuto Gun War of 1881. He was severely wounded in this campaign.
In 1885, he accompanied Sir Charles Warren's expedition to Bechuanaland in command of the 2nd Mounted Infantry, which soon became known as 'Carrington's Horse'.
He commanded the Bechuanaland Police beginning in 1888. He also was appointed military adviser to the High Commissioner in the First Matabele War and commanded the British force in the Matabele Rebellion in 1896.
Carrington was in command of Belfast district in 1899-1900, but left for South Africa in early 1900 following the outbreak of the Second Boer War the previous year, as he was appointed on the staff of the South Africa Field Force on 28 February 1900, with the local rank of a lieutenant-general. He was in command of the Rhodesian Field Force during the war.
He was created a in 1887, an KCB in 1897, and retired with the rank of major-general.
He was the father-in-law of World War I fighter ace William Mayes Fry and the father of the writer Dorothy Carrington.