John Worrell Carrington

Sir John Worrell Carrington, KB, CMG, KC, FRGS, , DCL, (29 May 1847 – 11 February 1913) was a British jurist, elected representative, and colonial administrator between 1872 and 1902.

He served the Caribbean colonies of Barbados, St. Lucia, Tobago, Grenada, and British Guiana until his final appointment as Chief Justice of Hong Kong.

Like many fortunate Barbadian's often did when the island was part of the British West Indian colony, he had the opportunity to travel to and from England and to pursue his higher educated there at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he obtained a B.A.

[4] Four months later, before returning to Barbados to begin his career in earnest, he married on 2 October 1872 in Oxford, Susan Catherine (1847–1928) the only daughter of William Walsh of Norham.

[7] After his return to Barbados Carrington was made a member of the House of Assembly from October 1874 to December 1878, when he was called to a seat in the legislative council, and acted a Judge Assistant at the Court of Appeal from 1874 to 1875 (a post he took again in 1879).

[17][18] Carrington retired due to ill health in March 1902, and left Hong Kong to live first at Oxford and later at Reading, England, where he died on 11 February 1913 at the age of 65.