Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington, KCB, KCMG (23 August 1844 – 22 March 1913) was a British Army officer best known for his role in the Second Matabele War.

He commanded the Transvaal Volunteer Force against Sekhukhune in 1878–1879 and the Cape Mounted Riflemen in the Basuto Gun War of 1881.

In 1885, he accompanied Sir Charles Warren's expedition to Bechuanaland in command of the 2nd Mounted Infantry, which soon became known as 'Carrington's Horse'.

[2] Carrington left for South Africa in March 1900 on the SS Dunottar Castle, and arrived in Cape Town the following month.

He was the father-in-law of World War I fighter ace William Mayes Fry and the father of the writer Dorothy Carrington.