Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase
1859. _d._ Mortimer lodge near Reading 10 March 1878 in 74 year.
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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
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