The Society Update
The 2018 BAS Award to Lord Carrington
The Britain-Australia Society was privileged to honour the legacy of the late Lord (Peter) Carrington by presenting the 2018 BAS Award to his son, Lord (Rupert) Carrington on Tuesday 15th January.
The evening began with introductory remarks by the Chairman, giving members and their guests the background of the Society that Lord Carrington founded and supported from his return as High Commissioner to Australia in 1960 to his death in 2018. HE the High Commissioner, George Brandis QC then gave a highly-informative talk on the various political and diplomatic adventures of which Lord Carrington undertook, mixing in enough wit and humour to give a true account of a man that did so much to bring Australia and the UK closer together. The Earl of Buckinghamshire, a close personal friend of the Carington family, followed on with an account of his many experiences with Lord Carrington that was at once humorous and deeply moving to the seventy members in attendance.
After the speeches our Chairman Peter Benson presented Lord Carrington with his father’s award which was gratefully received both by Lord Carrington and by a number of the Carington family who we were glad to have in attendance.
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Lord Carrington was, until his death in 2018 at the age of 99, the President of the Britain-Australia Society and there can be no doubt that he was a man of extraordinary talents and integrity – to learn more about his legacy please click here.
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