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Cargill, Richard Emil Dudley, son of James Dudley Cargill, I.C.S., District and Sess. Judge, Bengal; b. Oct. 25, 1894; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (G); K.S. 1909; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1913, matric. Michaelmas 1913; M.A. 1921; served on the western front as a Despatch Rider Aug. 1914 - Aug. 1916; E. African Expeditionary Force 1916-9; Lieut. R.E. Aug. 1, 1918; B.M., B.Ch. 1924; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1924; F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh) 1926 and (Canada) 1931; in practice at Ottawa; m. Sept. 19, 1942, Simone Valerie, daughter of Major Frederick Delante, of Saracola, Florida; d. 4 Jan. 1968.

CARKESSE, JAMES, son of James Carkesse, Hackney, Middlesex, and of City of London, Turkey merchant, and Mary, dau. of Rowland Beresford, London; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1648; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 26 Jan 1652/3, Westminster Student; BA 3 Feb 1656/7; MA 1659; refused grace for BA four times, and before his admission was compelled to apologise for some insult which he had offered his college; in 1658 Busby certified that Carkesse “is of the same standing as those Westminster scholars who take the MA degree this Act 1658”, and that he “was only hindered from residence by the tenuity of his fortunes, which compelled him to reside in Westminster College for a maintenance, and to wait five terms for admission to a student’s place, to which he was elected” (CSP Dom 1658-9, 40); Usher, Magdalen Coll. Sch. 1655, 5 Jan 1662/3-3, Head Master 1663-4; a clerk in the Seamen’s Ticket Office, Navy Office, Aug 1665 - Mar 1667, Mar 1668 - Sep 1670, Mar 1672 - Jun 1673; confined to Bedlam, but released in 1678; Head Master, Chelmsford Sch., 1683; FRS 23 Mar 1663/4, expelled 18 Nov 1675; author, Lucida Intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem by the doctor’s patient extraordinary, 1679; lic. to m. 23 Nov 1663 Arabella Walesson, St. Faith’s, London. DNB.

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.

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.

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.

Carling, Tom In de Betou Courtney, son of Courtney Carling and Vesta Ebba Elizabeth, d. of Capt. Edward Gowers In de Betou of Stockholm; b. 10 Apr. 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (G); left Dec. 1923; dir. E. W. Carling & Co. colonial merchants; RASC 1940-5 (Lieut.); d. 4 Sept. 1957.