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CARKESSE, THOMAS, son of Charles Carkesse, Battersea, Surrey, Secretary, Board of Customs, and Mary ---; b.; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1724; KS 1727. [will Charles Carkesse, Battersea, Surrey, proved PCC 25 Sep 1741; Charles Carkesse, St. John’s, Westminster, proved PCC 21 Feb 1760]

CARKETT, ROBERT; b.; GS 1540; KS 1540-2 (Chapter Muniments 6478; PRO, Exch. Aug. Office, Misc. Books, 24).

Carless, Henry Alfred, eldest son of Thomas Carless, of Richmond, Surrey, by Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of John Kingden, of Notting Hill, b. Sept. 26, 1894; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (A); non-resident K.S. 1909; left July 1914; Trin. Hall, Camb., scholar, matric. Lent 1922; played lawn tennis against Oxford 1923, and hockey against Oxford 1924; 1st class Oriental Languages Trip., part 1, 1923; 2nd class, div. 2, Law Trip., part 2, 1924; B.A. and LL. B. 1924; Indian Police Service from 1914; A.D.C. to the Governor of the United Provinces 1917-8, served with 120th Rajputana Rifles July - Dec. 1918; transferred to Political Department for service with Khorasan Levy Corps, Meshed, Persia, 1919-20; Inspector-General of Police, Ajmer-Merwana, and Police Adviser to the Resident of Rajputana 1946; a Principal, Colonial Office 1949; C. l. E. Jan. 1, 1947; m. July 12, 1924, Gwendolen Mary, younger daughter of James Durie Pattullo, of Albury Heath, Surrey; d. 1976.

Carless, Hugh Dobbie, younger son of Albert Carless, M.B., F.R.C.S., of London, Professor of Surgery at King's Coll., London, and temp. Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C., by Ada Bridger, daughter of General George Staple Dobbie, of the Madras Army; b. May 13, 1897 adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (A); exhibitioner 1911; non-resident K.S. 1912; left Dec. 1914; Trin. Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. Michaelmas 1916); enlisted in the 14th Batt. the London Regt. (London Scottish) in Nov. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Reserve) the Gordon Highlanders June 26, 1915; was attached to the 2nd Batt. and went out to the western front May 29, 1916; wounded at High Wood in the battle of the Somme July 21, 1916; returned to the front after his recovery Jan. 10, 1917, and was attached to the 7th Batt.; d. April 24, 1917, of wounds received in action on the Scarpe the previous day; unm.

CARLESS, JOSEPH POWELL, son of Joseph Carless, Maidstone, Kent; b.; adm. 26 Jan 1814; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1817; left Christmas 1819.

CARLETON, ---; b.; in school list 1749.

CARLETON, DUDLEY, 1ST VISCOUNT DORCHESTER, son of Anthony Carleton, Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and his second wife Jocosa, dau. of John Goodwin, Winchington, Bucks.; b. 10 Mar 1573/4; adm.; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1591, matr. 11 Feb 1591/2, Westminster Student to 1607; BA 1595; MA 1600 (incorp. Camb. 1626); DCL 31 Aug 1636; Secretary to Sir Thomas Parry, Ambassador to Paris, 1602; MP St. Mawes Mar 1603/4 - Feb 1610/1, Hastings Jan 1625/6 - May 1626; ? adm. Grays Inn 21 Feb 1604/5; Secretary to Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland; suspected of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, but succeeded in clearing himself while under arrest; Ambassador to Venice 1610-5, The Hague 1616-25; knighted Sep1610; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1625-6; Privy Councillor 1626; Envoy to Paris 1626, The Hague 1626-8; created Baron Carleton 22 May 1626 and Viscount Dorchester 25 Jul 1628; Secretary of State from 18 Dec 1628; the most sagacious and successful British diplomat of his day; m. 1st, Nov 1607 Anne, dau. of George Gerrard, Dorney, Bucks., and step-dau. of Sir Henry Savile (founder of Savilian Professorship at Oxford); m. 2nd, 1630 Anne, widow of Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning, and dau. of Sir Henry Glemham, Little Glemham, Suffolk; d. 15 Feb 1631/2. Buried Westminster Abbey, monument in St. Paul’s Chapel. DNB.

CARLETON, GEORGE, second son of Henry Carleton, Hastings, Sussex, Collector of Taxes and Jurat of Rye, Sussex, and Mary Gibbs, Rye; bapt. 23 Jul 1718; at school under Nicoll (R. F. Scott, ed, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , pt. iii, 493); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1738, aged 20; BA 1741/2; MA 1745; ordained deacon (Norwich. Lit. dim. from Chichester) 14 Mar 1741/2, priest (Chichester) 18 Dec 1743; Vicar of Rye, Sussex, from 7 Jan 1743/4; one of the Jurats of the Corporation; Domestic Chaplain to Margaret, Baroness Clinton, 18 Oct 1751; m. 19 Jun 1753 Constance Daw, Rye, Sussex; d. 27 Nov 1761.

CARLILE, LAWRENCE, son of Lawrence Carlile, and Margaret, dau. of Antony Burbage, St. Dunstan’s in the West, London, citizen and skinner; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, 1602, adm. pens. 1602, scholar 1603, matr. Mich. 1602; BA 1607/8 ?; Basel Univ., 1608; MA (incorp. Cambridge from Basel) 1618; BD (Cambridge) 1618; ordained; Vicar of Bishop Norton, Lincs., 1614 - still 1643; Prebendary of Lincoln, 27 Aug 1617 – res 18 Sep 1624, although he seems to have been regarded as a Prebendary until his death at some unknown date before Sep 1660; Rector of Blyborough, Lincs., 1618-24; Rector of Healing, Lincs., 1637 - ejected 1643; sequestered for having resided in Newark while it was a Royalist garrison; owner, Bolt & Tun, and Three Tuns, Fleet Street, London; lic. to m. 13 Feb 1615 Jane Kettlewell, Swallow, Lincs.; living 1646/7.