Dictionary of Indian Biography/Carrington, Sir Codrington Edmund

by Charles Edward Buckland

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CARRINGTON, SIR CODRINGTON EDMUND (1769–1849)

Born Oct. 22, 1769 : son of Codrington Carrington : educated at Winchester : called to the bar by the Middle Temple, 1792 : Bencher, 1832 : practised as an advocate at the Calcutta bar, 1792–9, being junior Counsel to the E.I. Co. : was an intimate friend of Sir William Jones (q.v.) : when in England, he made a code of law for Ceylon : was appointed Chief Justice there and knighted, 1801 : retired in 1806 from ill-health. M.P. for St. Mawes, 1826–31 : was D.C.L. 1810 : F.R.S., J.P. and F.S.A. : died Nov. 28, 1849.