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CARNEGIE, John William. Entered Bengal army 1833; major 15 Bengal N.I. 30 Sep. 1860 to 6 June 1862; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Gipsy hill near London 6 Jany. 1874.

CARNEGIE, Swynfen Thomas (youngest son of 7 Earl of Northesk 1758–1831). b. Rosehill, Hampshire 8 March 1813; entered navy 3 Aug. 1826; served in operations connected with civil war in Spain 1833–8, received order of San Fernando; captain R.N. 10 June 1845; C.B. 5 July 1855; officer in command of defences of the Thames and superintendent of steam naval organisation at Sheerness 1852; controller general of coast guard 6 Feb. to 27 April 1863; retired admiral 18 June 1876; M.P. for Stafford 1841–7; a lord of the treasury 11 March to 6 July 1846; a lord of the admiralty 9 March 1859. d. 16 Pelham crescent, London 29 Nov. 1879. I.L.N. xx, 172 (1852), portrait.

CARNEGY, Alexander. b. 25 Feb. 1793; ensign Bengal army 20 Aug. 1813; lieut. col. of 15 Bengal N.I. 5 Nov. 1841, of 27 N.I. 1843, of 36 N.I. 1849–51; col. 15 N.I. 15 Sep. 1851 to death; commissioner at Peshawar, Punjab 26 June 1852; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Meggetland house, Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1862.

CARNEGY, Patrick. b. 20 May 1825; entered Indian civil service 1846; assistant comr. in Oude 1856; deputy comr. of Lucknow district; comr. of the Bareilly division; first civil officer who entering service in uncovenanted branch, ever attained rank of a comr.; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; F.R.G.S.; author of Kutcherry technicalities or vocabulary of law terms as used in the Mofussil courts N.W.P. Allahabad 1853; Notes on the land tenures and revenue assessments of Upper India 1874. d. Norwood near London 12 Nov. 1886.

CARNWATH, Thomas Henry Dalzell, 11 Earl of. b. 2 Sep. 1797; succeeded 1 Jany. 1839. d. Bagnéres de Bigorre, Hautes Pyrénées, France 14 Dec. 1867.

CARNWATH, Henry Arthur Hew Dalzell, 12 Earl of. b. Heidelberg 12 April 1858; succeeded 14 Dec. 1867. d. Harrow school 13 March 1873.

CARNWATH, Arthur Alexander Dalzell, 13 Earl of (2 son of 10 Earl of Carnwath 1768–1839). b. 15 Sep. 1799; ensign 45 foot 29 April 1819; captain 48 foot 28 June 1827, lieut. col. 23 April 1841 to 13 Dec. 1853 when placed on h.p.; inspecting field officer of militia 1853–8; commanded south eastern district of England 1861–5; col. 48 foot 10 Aug. 1864 to death; general 14 April 1873; succeeded his nephew 13 March 1873. d. 28 Eaton place, London 28 April 1875.

CARON, Réné Edouard (son of Augustin Caron of parish of St. Anne Cote of Beaupré, Lower Canada). b. St. Anne, Nov. or Dec. 1800; barrister Lower Canada 1826; member of city council of Quebec 1832, mayor 1833–7; M.P. for Upper town of Quebec 1834–6; Q.C. 1848; member of legislative council of Canada 1841–57, speaker 8 Nov. 1843 to 1847 and 11 March 1848 to 1853, member of executive council 28 Oct. 1851; puisne judge of superior court 15 Aug. 1853, of Court of Queen’s Bench, Quebec 27 Jany. 1855; lieutenant governor of province of Quebec 11 Feb. 1873 to death. d. Quebec 13 Dec. 1876. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 472–3.

CARPENTER, George (son of the succeeding). Ensign 53 foot 1 Oct. 1818; lieut. col. 41 foot 27 Dec. 1850 to death; killed at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854 in 55 year. G. Ryan’s Our heroes in the Crimea (1855) 70–2.

CARPENTER, George. Entered Bengal army 1791; colonel 49 Bengal N.I. 29 April 1823 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. 7 Great Cumberland place, London 30 Jany. 1855 aged 91.

CARPENTER, Joseph Edwards. b. London 2 Nov. 1813; wrote for magazines at a very early age; gave a musical entertainment called The Road, the Rail and the River in London and the provinces; produced The Sanctuary a musical drama in 2 acts 1854, Love and Honour a drama in 3 acts at Surrey theatre 1854 and Adam Bede a drama in 3 acts at same house 1862; author of upwards of 2500 songs and duets; edited Penny Readings in prose and verse 10 vols. 1865–7; author of Random rhymes or lays of London 1833; Lays for light hearts 1835; Songs and ballads 1844; Poems and lyrics 1845; Border ballads 1846; Lays and legends of fairy land 1849; My jubilee volume 1883. d. 20 Norland sq. Bayswater, London 6 May 1885. Illust. news of the world ii, 425 (1858), portrait.

CARPENTER, Margaret Sarah (2 dau. of Alexander Geddes of Alderbury, Wiltshire). b. Salisbury 1793; portrait painter in London 1814; exhibited 147 pictures at the R.A. 50 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–66; granted civil list pension of £100 per annum 29 Nov. 1866. (m. 1817 Wm. Hookham Carpenter 1792–1866). d. 22 Upper Gloucester place, London 13 Nov. 1872. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists i, 386–8 (1876).

CARPENTER, Mary (eld. child of Rev. Lant Carpenter of Bristol, Unitarian minister 1780–1840). b. Exeter 3 April 1807; kept a school with her mother at Bristol 1829; opened a ragged school in Bristol 1 Aug. 1846, a reformatory at Kingswood 11 Sep. 1852, a reformatory for girls in Park row, Bristol 10 Oct. 1854 and a certified industrial school there April 1859; took leading part in conferences on ragged schools held in Birmingham, Dec. 1851, Dec. 1853 and Jany, 1861; visited India 1866–7, 1868–9, 1869–70 and 1875–6; visited America and Canada 1873; read many papers at meetings of Social Science Association; author of Meditations and prayers anon. 1845; Our convicts, how they are made and should be treated 2 vols. 1864; Six months in India 2 vols. 1868 and 9 other books. d. Bristol 14 June 1877. Life and work of Mary Carpenter by J. E. Carpenter 1879, portrait; Theological Review, April 1880 p. 279; The children of the street by M. H. Hart 1880; Fortnightly Review xxxiii, 662–71 (1880); Graphic xv, 624 (1877), portrait; Times 18 June 1877 p. 8, cols. 3–5.

CARPENTER, Rev. Philip Pearsall (brother of the preceding). b. Bristol, Nov. 1819; ed. at Bristol and York; B.A. London 1841; Presbyterian minister at Stand, then at Warrington 1846–61; bought a vast collection of 14 tons of shells in Liverpool for £50, 1855, a full report on these shells occupies 209 pages of British Association report for 1856; lived in Montreal 1865 to death; formed a great collection of Chitonidæ. d. Montreal 24 May 1877. Memoir of P. P. Carpenter edited by R. L. Carpenter 1880, portrait.

CARPENTER, Richard Cromwell (son of Richard Carpenter of Middlesex). b. 21 Oct. 1812; ed. at the Charterhouse; architect in London; district surveyor for East Islington; exhibited 9 works at R.A. 1830–49; built churches of St. Stephen and St. Andrew at Birmingham 1844 and 1846, St. Paul at Brighton 1849, and St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1852 where the west window was filled with stained glass to his memory at a cost of £425; restored Chichester cathedral, Sherborne Abbey and St. John’s college, Hurstpierpoint. d. 40 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 27 March 1855.

CARPENTER, Thomas David. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. col. 1 Madras N.I. 1 Sep. 1847 to 29 Aug. 1859; M.G. 29 Aug. 1859. d. Secunderabad 17 Oct. 1860 aged 56.

CARPENTER, William. b. 1797; apprenticed to a bookseller in Finsbury; edited with Wm. Greenfield Scripture Magazine afterwards expanded into the Critica Biblica 4 vols. 1824–7; edited Shipping Gazette 1836, Era 1838, Railway Observer 1843, Lloyd’s Weekly News 1844, Court Journal 1848, Sunday Times 1854, Bedfordshire Independent 1854; issued a publication entitled Political Letters 1830–1 which was unstamped for which he was tried 14 May 1831 and imprisoned in the King’s Bench; from his prison he edited Political Mag. Sep. 1831 to July 1832, republished as Carpenter’s Monthly political mag. 1832; hon. sec. to Chancery reform association 1851–3; author of Sancta Biblica 3 vols. 1825; Scripture natural history 1828; A peerage for the people 1835, 4 ed. 1848; A comprehensive dictionary of English synonyms, 6 ed. 1865; An introduction to the reading and study of the Bible 3 vols. 1867–8. d. Colebrooke row, Islington, London 21 April 1874.

CARPENTER, William Benjamin (brother of Mary Carpenter 1807–77). b. Exeter 29 Oct. 1813; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1835; lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Bristol medical school; Fullerian professor of physiology at Royal Institution London 1844; edited British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review 1847–52; professor of forensic medicine at Univ. college London 1849–59; principal of University hall London 1851–9; registrar of Univ. of London May 1856 to Feb. 1879, F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1844, Royal medallist 1861; pres. of British Association at Brighton Aug. 1872; corresponding member of Institute of France 1873; C.B. 4 Dec. 1875; Lyell medallist of Geological Soc. 1883; author of The principles of general and comparative physiology 1839, 4 ed. 1854; Popular cyclopædia of science 1843; Manual of physiology 1846, 4 ed. 1865; Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera, Ray Society 1862. d. 56 Regent’s park road, London 10 Nov. 1885. J. Timbs’s Year book of facts (1873) 1–8, 126–33, portrait; Medical Circular ii, 169–71 (1853), portrait; T. H. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865), portrait; I.L.N. lxi, 148, 150 (1872), portrait, lxxxvii, 559 (1885), portrait.

CARPENTER, William Hookham (only son of James Carpenter of Old Bond st. London, bookseller who d. 30 March 1852 aged 84). b. Bruton st. London 2 March 1792; bookseller and publisher in Lower Brook st. London 1817; keeper of prints and drawings in British Museum, March 1845 to death; a trustee of National portrait gallery 1856 to death; member of Academy of fine arts at Amsterdam 1847; F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Pictorial notices, consisting of a memoir of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, with a descriptive catalogue of the etchings executed by him 1844; A guide to the drawings and prints exhibited to the public in the King’s library, British Museum 1858, 3 ed. 1862. d. British Museum, London 12 July 1866. G.M. ii, 410–11 (1866).

CARPMAEL, William. b. 90 Chancery lane, London 27 Feb. 1804; designed and erected salt works in Cheshire which he managed; patent agent and consulting engineer in London 1835; A.I.C.E. 1830, M.I.C.E. 1840, member of council 1858; M.I.M.E. 1862; member of Metropolitan Board of Works from its formation 14 Aug. 1855 to his death; author of The law of patents for inventions explained for the use of inventors and patentees 1832 6 ed. 1860; Law reports of patent cases 3 vols. 1843–52. d. Streatham hill near London 9 July 1867.

CARR, Rev. James. b. April 1784; P.C. of South Shields 1831–62; hon. canon of Durham 1860 to death; master of Sherburn hospital, Durham 1862 to death. d. Sherburn hospital 29 March 1874.

CARR, John Charles (eld. son of John Carr of Trinidad). b. Trinidad 1810; LL.B. London 1839; barrister G.I. 6 May 1840; Queen’s advocate of Sierra Leone, May 1840, chief justice 20 Aug. 1841 to 1865; declined honour of knighthood twice. d. Bedford house, New Barnet 2 Sep. 1880 in 71 year.

CARR, Mark William. Assistant inspector general of Madras police 12 Sep. 1862; major Madras staff corps 16 Feb. 1870 to death; author of A collection of Telugu proverbs together with some Sanscrit proverbs 1868; edited Descriptive and historical papers relating to the seven pagodas on the Coromandel coast by W. Chambers and others 1869; lost in wreck of “General Outram” off Rutnagherry on the coast of Malabar 16 Jany. 1871.

CARR, Right Rev. Thomas. b. Yorkshire 1788; sizar St. John’s coll. Cam. 10 June 1809; B.A. 1813; D.D. Lambeth 12 Sep. 1832; chaplain at Bombay; bishop of Bombay 15 July 1837 to July 1851, consecrated at Lambeth 19 Nov. 1837; R. of St. Peter and St. Paul i.e. The Abbey with St. James’s, Bath, April 1854 to death. d. Lansdown crescent, Bath 5 Sep. 1859. Illust. news of the world iv, 177 (1859), portrait.

CARR, Thomas. b. Durham 23 Jany. 1824; invented a new method of drying glue, the disintegrator a machine much used in various trades and manufactures, and a flour mill on the disintegrator principle which is a good deal used in Scotland. d. Bristol 29 March 1874.

CARR, Sir William Ogle (3 son of Thomas Wm. Carr of Frognal, Hampstead, barrister). Barrister G.I. 26 April 1826; King’s advocate in Ceylon; second puisne judge of Ceylon 19 Dec. 1839, chief justice 14 Aug. 1854 to death; knighted by patent 14 Aug. 1854. d. Candy, Ceylon 24 April 1856 aged 53.

CARRE, Robert Riddell. b. Edinburgh 27 Feb. 1782; entered navy 2 June 1796; placed on half pay 15 Nov. 1816; captain 12 Aug. 1819; retired V.A. 10 Sep. 1857. d. Caverse Carre, Roxburghshire 1 March 1860.

CARRICK, Thomas (2 child of John Carrick of Carlisle, cotton-mill owner). b. Upperley near Carlisle 4 July 1802; a chemist at Carlisle to about 1830; miniature painter at Newcastle 1836, in London 1839–68; exhibited annually 8 miniatures at R.A. 1841–66, Turner annuitant 1868 to death; presented by Prince Albert with a medal for his invention of painting miniatures on marble 1845. d. Newcastle 31 July 1875.

CARRINGTON, Frederick Augustus (only son of Rev. Caleb Carrington, V. of Berkeley, Gloucs. who d. 1839). b. 1801; barrister L.I. 7 Feb. 1823; recorder of Wokingham, Oct. 1858 to death; published with Joseph Payne Reports of cases argued and ruled at Nisi Prius 9 vols. 1825–41. d. 28 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 30 July 1860.

CARRINGTON, Frederick George (3 son of Noel Thomas Carrington of Devonport, poet 1777–1830). b. about 1816; contributed to the Bath Chronicle, Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, Cornwall Gazette, West of England Conservative, Bristol Mirror and Gloucester Journal; editor and proprietor of Gloucestershire Chronicle; wrote treatises on Architecture and Painting for Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. d. Gloucester 1 Feb. 1864. G.M. xvi, 535 (1864).

CARRINGTON, Henry Edmund (brother of the preceding). b. Maidstone 16 March 1806; connected with the Plymouth Journal, Devonport Telegraph, Sherborne Mercury, and Western Luminary; edited the Bath Chronicle; author of The Plymouth and Devonport guide with sketches of the surrounding scenery 1828. d. Bath 5 Feb. 1859.

CARRINGTON, Richard Christopher (2 son of Richard Carrington of Brentford, brewer who d. July 1858). b. Chelsea 26 May 1826; ed. at Hedley and Trin. coll. Cam., 36 wrangler 1848; B.A. 1848; observer in Univ. of Durham Oct. 1849 to April 1852; built a house at Redhill near Reigate with an observatory attached 1852–4; built an observatory on top of an isolated conical hill known as the Middle Devil’s Jump at Churt Surrey 1866; F.R.A.S. 14 March 1851, hon. sec. Feb. 1857 to Feb. 1862, gold medallist 1859; F.R.S. 7 June 1860; author of A catalogue of 3735 circumpolar stars observed at Redhill 1857 printed by the Admiralty; Observations of the spots on the sun from Nov. 9, 1853 to March 24, 1861 made at Redhill 1863; found dead in his house at Churt 27 Nov. 1875. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxvi, 137–42 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii, 119 (1876), portrait; Times 22 Nov. 1875 p. 5, col. 3, 7 Dec. p. 11, col. 6.

CARROLL, Sir George. Stockbroker at 26 Oxford st. London 1811; contractor for state lotteries having offices in Cornhill, Oxford st. and Charing Cross, lotteries were abolished Oct. 1826; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1837–8; knighted at the Guildhall 9 Nov. 1837; an original director of London Joint Stock bank 1836; alderman of Candlewick ward 23 Dec. 1839 to death; lord mayor 1846–7; president of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. d. Loughton, Essex 19 Dec. 1860 aged 76. bur. Norwood cemetery 27 Dec. I.L.N. ix, 295, 309 (1846), portrait; City Press 22 Dec. 1860 p. 5.

CARROLL, Rev. Richard. b. Dublin 14 July 1807; entered Society of Jesus at Cheiri 18 Sep. 1825; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1834; professed of the four vows 2 Feb. 1845; superior of Seminary at Stonyhurst Sep. 1845 to Sep. 1849; sent to mission of St. Francis Xavier, Liverpool Sep. 1849 where he became distinguished as a preacher. d. Liverpool 14 Feb. 1858.

CARROLL, Sir William Fairbrother (3 son of Daniel Carroll of Uskane, co. Tipperary, barrister). b. Glencarrig, co. Wicklow 28 Jany. 1784; entered navy 5 Dec. 1795; captain 6 Dec. 1813; head of Bath police several years; R.A. 24 Jany. 1849; commander in chief at Cork 28 July 1853 to 13 Aug. 1855; lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 13 Aug. 1855 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852; was in action with the enemy 67 times. d. Greenwich hospital 8 April 1862.

CARROW, John Monson (eld. son of Rev. Richard Carrow, R. of Broxholme, Lincs. who d. 20 Feb. 1847 aged 72). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1834; judge of county courts, circuit 57, (Somerset) 13 March 1847 to death; recorder of Wells 1852 to death; one of the authors of Cases relating to railways and canals 4 vols. 1840–8; and of New Sessions cases 3 vols. 1845–9. d. Weston-super-Mare 8 May 1853. G.M. xxxix, 668–9 (1853).

CARRUTHERS, Right Rev. Andrew. b. Glenmillan near New Abbey in stewartry of Kircudbright 7 Feb. 1770; ed. at Scotch college, Douay; ordained priest 1795; stationed at Balloch, Perthshire, then at Traquair, Peebleshire, afterwards at Munchies and Dalbeattie; vicar apostolic of eastern district of Scotland 28 Sep. 1832 to death; consecrated at Edinburgh as bishop of Ceramis in partibus infidelium 13 Jany. 1833. d. Edinburgh 24 May 1852. Gordon’s Catholic church in Scotland 474, portrait.

CARRUTHERS, Richard. Ensign 26 foot 19 May 1814; major 2 foot 19 Feb. 1836 to 23 July 1839 when he retired; C.B. 6 June 1840. d. 1 Brunswick gardens, Kensington, London 17 Feb. 1864 aged 63.

CARRUTHERS, Robert (son of Mr. Carruthers of Mouswald, Dumfries, farmer). b. Dumfries 5 Nov. 1799; master of national school at Huntingdon; edited Inverness Courier, April 1828 to death, he made it the most popular paper in North of Scotland, proprietor 1831; hon. LLD. Edin. 21 April 1871; published History of Huntingdon 1824; The Highland note book or sketches and anecdotes 1843; The poetical works of Alexander Pope 4 vols. 1853; wrote with Robert Chambers most of the original matter in Chambers’s Cyclopædia of English literature 2 vols. 1843–4. d. Inverness 26 May 1878. G.M. Nov. 1884 pp. 448–51; I.L.N. lxii, 557 (1878), portrait.

CARSON, Right Rev. Thomas (elder son of Rev. Thomas Carson 1763–1816, R. of Kilmahon, Cloyne). b. Kilmahon rectory 27 Aug. 1805; ed. at Glanmire school and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; V. of Urney, co. Cavan 1838; R. of Cloon and vicar general of Kilmore 1854; dean of Kilmore 1860; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 1870 to death; consecrated at Armagh 2 Oct. 1870. d. Portrush, co. Antrim 7 July 1874.

CARSWELL, Sir Robert. b. Paisley 3 Feb. 1793; studied at Glasgow, Paris and Lyons; M.D. Marischal college, Aberdeen 1826; made a series of 2000 water-color drawings of diseased structures in Paris for University college, London 1828–31; professor of pathological anatomy at the college 1831–40; phys. to King of the Belgians at Lacken near Brussells 1840 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; author of Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, with coloured plates 1837; and of 7 articles in Cyclopædia of practical medicine 4 vols. 1833–5. d. Lacken 15 June 1857.

CARTE, John Elliot. Assistant surgeon in army 31 Dec. 1841; surgeon 14 foot 26 Jany. 1858; deputy inspector general 22 June 1870 to 17 Feb. 1872 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. Portland place, Brighton 19 April 1876.

CARTER, George. b. Bromfield near Ludlow, Salop 29 Nov. 1792; whip to the Warwickshire hounds 1823–5, to Mr. West’s harriers 1825–7; whip to Duke of Grafton 1827–31 and huntsman 1833–42; huntsman to Grantley Berkeley 1831–3; huntsman of the Tedworth hounds 1842–65; had few equals and no superiors whether in the kennel or in the field. d. Milton, Pewsey Vale, Wilts. 21 Nov. 1884. Hound and horn or the life and recollections of George Carter the great huntsman by I. H. G. (1885), portrait.

CARTER, Harry William (eld. son of Wm. Carter, M.D. of Canterbury who d. 1822). b. Canterbury 7 Sep. 1787; ed. at Kings sch. Canterbury and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, M.B. 1811, M.D. 1819; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1812; F.R.C.P. 1825; phys. at Canterbury 1825–35; author of A short account of some of the principal hospitals of France, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands with remarks on the climate and diseases of these countries 1821, and of some essays in Cyclopædia of practical medicine. d. Kennington hall near Ashford, Kent 16 July 1863.

CARTER, Henry Lee. Gave an entertainment called “The two lands of gold” at the Marionette theatre previously known as the Adelaide gallery, Adelaide st., Strand, London April 1853. d. Kensington house asylum, Kensington, London 3 Oct. 1862 aged 37.

CARTER, James. b. Colchester 5 July 1792; tailor at Colchester 1819; removed to London 1836; author of Lectures on taste; A lecture on the primitive state of man; Memoirs of a working man 2 vols. 1845–50. d. St. John’s place, Camberwell 1 June 1853. G.M. xl, 96 (1853).

CARTER, James. b. parish of Shoreditch, London 1798; a landscape and figure engraver; engraved many plates for the annuals especially Jennings’s Landscape Annual 1830–40; engraved plates after Goodall, Nasmyth and Richard Wilson for Art Journal and E. M. Ward’s pictures of ‘The South Sea Bubble’ and ‘Benjamin West’s First essay in art.’ d. 6 Fleur de Lis street, Norton Folgate, London 23 Aug. 1855.

CARTER, Sir James (son of James Carter of Portsmouth). b. 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; judge of supreme court of New Brunswick 1834, chief justice 20 Dec. 1850 to 1865 when he retired on a pension; knighted by patent 12 Oct. 1859. d. Mortimer lodge near Reading 10 March 1878 in 74 year.

CARTER, John (2 son of Thomas Carter of Castle Martin, co. Kildare). Entered navy 14 Jany. 1798; captain 7 Dec. 1815; superintendent of royal hospital at Haslar 2 Dec. 1841 to Dec. 1846; R.A. 8 April 1851; admiral on h.p. 4 Oct. 1862. d. 12 Devonport st., Portsmouth 2 April 1863.

CARTER, John (2 son of Wm. Carter of Southwark, London). b. Southwark 8 March 1804; Cadet H.E.I. Co.’s service; chronometer maker at 207 Tooley st. London 1827 and at 61 Cornhill 1840 to death; his chronometers obtained prizes and pecuniary rewards from government; a common councilman of London, alderman of Cornhill ward 1851 to death, sheriff 1852–53, lord mayor 1859–60; colonel London rifle brigade; F.R.A.S. 1830; F.S.A. 3 March 1853; juror in section of mechanics at Imperial exhibition Paris 1855. d. Stamford hill, London 8 May 1878. Illust. news of the world iv, 289, 308 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxxv, 437, 463, 472, 490 (1859), portrait.

CARTER, Owen Browne. Architect at Winchester; lived at Cairo, Egypt about 1830 where he executed many drawings, a selection of which was published in a folio vol. entitled Illustrations of Cairo 1840; author of Picturesque memorials of Winchester 1830, Some account of the church of St. John the Baptist at Bishopstone 1845, and of articles in Weale’s Quarterly Papers on Architecture. d. Salisbury 30 March 1859 aged 53.

CARTER, Robert Meek (eld. son of John Carter of Bridlington, Yorkshire). b. Skeffling, Holderness 1814; a coal merchant and cloth finisher at Leeds; alderman of Leeds; M.P. for Leeds 17 Nov. 1868 to Aug. 1876. d. The Grange, Burley near Leeds 9 Aug. 1882.

CARTER, Samuel (son of Samuel Carter of Coventry). b. Coventry 15 May 1805; solicitor in partnership with his uncle Josiah Conder at Birmingham 1827 to 16 Aug. 1839 when Conder died; solicitor to London and Birmingham railway co. (afterwards London and North Western) 1831–60; solicitor to Birmingham and Derby railway co. (afterwards the Midland) 1835–68; had control of 40 bills promoted by the two companies in one parliamentary session; practised in London 1850–68; M.P. for Coventry 26 March to 11 Nov. 1868, contested Coventry Nov. 1868 and Feb. 1874. d. 3 Clifton place, Hyde park, London 31 Jany. 1878. bur. Kenilworth parish churchyard. Solicitors’ Journal xxii, 302 (1878).

CARTER, Thomas. Clerk at the Horse Guards, Whitehall, London April 1839, first class clerk in Adjutant general’s office to death; author of Curiosities of war and military studies 1860, 2 ed. 1871; Medals of the British army and how they were won 1860–61; Historical record of the Forty-fourth foot 1864; edited Historical record of the Thirteenth regiment of light infantry 1867; Historical record of the Twenty-sixth regiment 1867; a constant contributor to Notes and Queries. d. 11 Lorrimore sq. Walworth, London 9 Aug. 1867.

CARTER, Rev. Thomas. b. 1774; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1802; fellow of Eton 14 April 1829; V. of Burnham, Bucks. 1833 to death; vice provost of Eton 1857 to death. d. Burnham vicarage 8 Oct. 1868.

CARTER, Thomas Wren. b. Nov. 1789; entered navy 29 March 1800, captain 25 April 1831; captain of Britannia 120 guns 9 Aug. 1852 to 13 March 1855; R.A. 31 Jany. 1856, retired admiral 20 Nov. 1876; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 Feb. 1874.

CARTHEW, George Alfred (only son of George Carthew of Harleston, Norfolk, solicitor). b. 20 June 1807; solicitor at Framlingham, Suffolk, and at Harleston 1830–9, at East Dereham 1839 to death; F.S.A. 2 Feb. 1854; author of The hundred of Launditch and deanery of Brisley in the county of Norfolk, 3 parts 1877–9; A history of the parishes of West and East Bradenham 1883; The origin of family or surnames 1883, and of many papers in antiquarian periodicals; found dead in his chair at Millfield, East Dereham 21 Oct. 1882. Athenæum 4 Nov. 1882 p. 598.

CARTHEW, James. b. Liskeard, Cornwall Jany. 1770; entered navy 8 Dec. 1780, captain 11 July 1801; admiral 14 Jany. 1850; placed on half pay 1853; pensioned 21 Jany. 1854. d. Tredudwell near Fowey 28 Nov. 1855.

CARTIER, Sir George Etienne, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Jacques Cartier 1774–1841, lieut. col. Canadian militia). b. St. Antoine, Lower Canada 6 Sep. 1814; called to bar in L.C. Nov. 1835; Q.C. 1854; provincial sec. of L.C. 25 Jany. 1856; attorney general of L.C. 1856–8, 1858–62, and 1864 to 1 July 1867; premier of Canadian government 6 Aug. 1858 to May 1862; C.B. 29 June 1867; member of Canadian privy council July 1867; minister of militia and defence 1867–73; created baronet 24 Aug. 1868. d. 47 Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 21 May 1873. H. J. Morgan’s Eminent Canadians (1862) 603–8; I.L.N. xlv, 496 (1864), portrait.

CARTLITCH, John. b. in or near Manchester 1793; chief tragedian of Richardson’s theatre at all the great fairs in England; the original Mazeppa at Astley’s Amphitheatre Easter 1831, played the part more than 1500 times; landlord of King of Prussia public house Fair st. Horsleydown, London 1836, of Spread Eagle 137 Whitecross st. 1837–8; played at Franklin theatre, New York 1839; made his début in Philadelphia, at Museum Masonic hall 10 July 1849 as Rivers in His last legs; last appeared on the stage at Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 25 June 1860; kept a café in Fourth st. Philadelphia. d. Philadelphia 12 Dec. 1875. The Era 9 Jany. 1876 p. 5, col. 4.

Note.—John Richardson the famous showman who died 14 Nov. 1836 aged 70, left him a legacy of £1000 because he was “such a bould speaker and might be heard from one end of the fear to the other when the trumpets were going.”

CARTMELL, Rev. James. b. 1810. Educ. at Em. coll. Cam.; 7 wrangler 1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1849; fellow of Christ’s coll. 1836, master 13 Feb. 1849 to death; vice chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 1849, 1865, and 1866; a member of council of the senate to Nov. 1880; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 7 Feb. 1851 to death. d. The lodge, Christ’s college, Cambridge 23 Jany. 1881.

CARTTAR, Charles Joseph (son of Joseph Carttar of Greenwich, solicitor). Solicitor at Greenwich 1830 to death; coroner for West Kent 1832 to death; conducted 14 Nov. 1878 inquest upon the 640 bodies found after sinking of the Princess Alice in the Thames 3 Sep. 1878; managed several elections at Greenwich for Conservative party. d. Catherine house, Blackheath road, Greenwich 19 March 1880 aged 71.

CARTWRIGHT, Edmund. Entered Bengal army 1795; brigadier in command at Delhi 1826–34, and at Agra 1834; colonel 10 Bengal N.I. 5 June 1829; col. 57 Bengal N.I. 1834 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Piccadilly, London 31 March 1853.

CARTWRIGHT, Fairfax William (eld. son of Wm. Cartwright 1797–1873). b. London 14 May 1823; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1844; fellow of All Souls’ college; served in Austrian army; major 2 hussars British German legion 7 Nov. 1855; M.P. for South Northamptonshire 25 Nov. 1868 to death. d. 7 New Burlington street, London 2 Feb. 1881.

CARTWRIGHT, Frances Dorothy (youngest child of rev. Edmund Cartwright 1743–1823 inventor of the power loom). b. Goadby Marwood, Leics. 28 Oct. 1780; author of The life and correspondence of Major Cartwright 2 vols. 1826; Poems, chiefly devotional, privately printed 1835; her translations of the Spanish poet Nunez Riego’s poems appeared with her initials in his Obras postumas poeticas 1844. d. Brighton 12 Jany 1863.

CARTWRIGHT, Samuel. b. Northampton 1789; an ivory turner; mechanical assistant to Charles Dumergue of Piccadilly, London, dentist; a dentist at 32 Old Burlington st. London 1811–57; at the head of his profession, made more than £10,000 a year for some years; dentist in ordinary to George IV.; the first pres. of Odontological Soc. 1856–7; F.R.G.S. 1830, F.L.S. 19 Nov. 1833, F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1841. d. Nizell’s house near Tunbridge 10 June 1864. British journal of dental science vii, 287 (1864); Proc. of Linnæan Soc. 1865, p. 84; Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 42–4 (1867).

CARTWRIGHT, William (2 son of Wm. Ralph Cartwright of Aynhoe 1771–1847, M.P. for Northamptonshire). b. 22 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 61 foot 2 July 1812; captain 8 hussars 2 July 1823 to 19 May 1825 when placed on h.p.; general 19 Nov. 1871. d. 16 Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 5 June 1873.

CARVOSSO, Rev. Benjamin (son of Wm. Carvosso of Mousehole near Penzance, Wesleyan preacher 1750–1834). b. Gluvias parish, Cornwall 29 Sep. 1789; admitted as a probationer by Wesleyan conference 1814; a missionary at Hobart Town in Van Diemen’s Land 1820 and 1825–30, in New South Wales 1820–5; Wesleyan minister in various parts of England 1830 to death; author of The great efficacy of simple faith, a memoir of William Carvosso 1835; Drunkenness, the enemy of Britain, arrested by the hand of God 1840; An account of Miss Deborah B. Carvosso 1840; Attractive piety or memorials of Wm. B. Carvosso 1844. d. Tuckingmill, Cornwall 2 Oct. 1854. G. Blencowe’s Memoir of Rev. B. Carvosso 1857.