Frederick Carrington [SEP] place of death
Frederick Carrington
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.
Frederick George Carrington
Frederick George Carrington (1816–1864) was an English journalist.
Life.
The third son of Nicholas Toms Carrington, he was about 14 at the time of his father's death. His eldest brother Henry E. Carrington, proprietor of the "Bath Chronicle", took him on, and he became a journalist.
Carrington contributed to the West of England journals: the "Bath Chronicle", "Felix Farley's Bristol Journal", the "Royal Cornwall Gazette", the "West of