Lieutenant General Sir Robert Harold Carrington, KCB, DSO (7 November 1882 – 5 September 1964) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.
[2] He served during the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1916.
[3] Carrington remained in the army after the war, attending the Staff College, Camberley in 1920.
[2] In 1936 he became a major general with command of the Royal Artillery at Army Headquarters in India.
[2] In 1939 he became Deputy Adjutant General at the War Office and in 1940 he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle: he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1941 New Year Honours,[5] before retiring later that year.