[4] In 1925 Noel Carrington married Catharine Alexander (1904–2004), who had been a student at the Slade School of Fine Art.
They had three children, Paul, Joanna and Jane, and lived in Hampstead until soon after 1945 when they moved to Lambourn, Berkshire, to farm at Long Acre.
Geoffrey Cumberlege and Noel Carrington replaced E. V. Rieu in the management of the Indian branches of Oxford University Press in 1920.
Noel got Dora to illustrate his Stories Retold edition of Don Quixote for the Indian market.
There he became friendly with Edward Thompson who involved him in the abortive scheme to produce the 'Oxford Book of Bengali Verse'.