Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington, FRS, FSA (22 October 1769 – 28 November 1849) was an English barrister, Chief Justice of Ceylon, and a Member of Parliament.

Edmund Morris, rector of Nutshalling, the friend of Lady Hervey; and was born at Longwood, Hampshire, on 22 October 1769.

In 1800, still in England, he was called on to prepare a code of laws for Ceylon, and was then appointed the first chief justice of the supreme court of judicature that had been created.

Having purchased an estate in Buckinghamshire, he became a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of that county, where he acted for many years as chairman of the quarter sessions.

[4] After the Manchester riots of 1819 Carrington published Inquiry into the Law relative to Public Assemblies of the People.