Nicholas Toms Carrington (also Noel Thomas) (1777–1830) was an English schoolmaster and poet.
Then he became a seaman on board a man-of-war, and was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797).
[2] After his term of service Carrington settled at Maidstone, Kent, where for five years he taught a public school.
In 1809, with support from friends, he established a private academy at Plymouth Dock, which he then ran until six months before his death, 2 September 1830.
[2] At an early period of his life Carrington, who was a member of The Plymouth Institution (now The Plymouth Athenaeum),[3] began to contribute verse to London and provincial papers.