Professor CE Carrington was born in 1897 and enlisted in 1914 at the outbreak of war, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. After the war he went up to Oxford and then taught for some years at Haileybury. From 1929 to 1954, apart from war service, he was a publisher at the Cambridge University Press. He was professor of Commonwealth Relations at Chatham House, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee. He died in 1990.
