- GB-2014-WSA-04517
- Person
- 1785-1850
CARTER, EDWARD, only son of Edward Carter, Horsham, Sussex, and Harriet, dau. of John Clater Aldridge, Horsham, Sussex; bapt. Horsham 7 Feb 1785; adm. 13 Jan 1796 (Clapham); Min. Can. (aged 13) 1798; in school list 1801; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Feb 1799, matr. Mich. 1802, scholar 1803; LLB 1805; adm. Inner Temple 8 Nov 1806; [perhaps adm. proctor, Court of Arches, but not in Law List, 1822]; a brewer at Portsmouth, Hampshire; five times Mayor of Portsmouth prior to the Municipal Corporations Act, and first mayor of the reformed corporation; m. 19 Aug 1809 his first cousin Mary, dau. of Sir John Carter, Kt, Mayor of Portsmouth; d. 12 Aug 1850.