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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.

Carlyle, Robert Hildred Fairfax, son of Thomas Fairfax Carlyle, Nigerian admin. service, and Isabel Margaret, d. of James Greig Rutherford-Elliot of Clifton, Bristol, b. 18 Mar. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (KS); left July 1939; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1939, BA MA 1946; Lieut. RE 1942, attd K.G.V's Own Bengal Miners and Sappers; an asst master Bedford Sch. 1954; d. 1 Dec. 1998.

CARR, ROBERT, son of William Carr, Newcastle, Northumberland; bapt. All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne 18 Feb 1677 (IGI); adm.; KS 1693; left 1694; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Mar 1694/5, aged 16; BA 1698/9; d. 1714.

CARR, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Carr, Middlesex; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1650; KS (Capt. ) 1651; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1653, adm. pens. 6 Jun 1653, scholar 1653, matr. Easter 1653.

CARRICK, JOHN, son of an officer in the Parliamentary army; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1647, Westminster Student; refused to submit to Parliamentary Visitors, and expelled 29 Jun 1648; having afterwards made his submission, an order was made 29 Mar 1649 that he should be admitted as a commoner, and “upon his good behaviour shal be capable of further favor for election unto a student’s or scholar’s place in the said Colledge or elsewhere” (Burrow, Reg. of the Visitors of the Univ. of Oxford, 225-6).

CARRILL, BLASE, third son of Richard Carrill, Thorpe, Surrey, official in Pipe Office, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Harward, Winchester, Hants.; b.; adm.; KS in 1644; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, matr. 1 Feb 1646/7, aged 16, Westminster Student; expelled from his Studentship by order of Committee of Lords and Commons for regulating University of Oxford, 15 May 1648, but subsequently submitted; permission for his re-election granted 1649; adm. Gray’s Inn 29 Nov 1648, called to bar 8 Feb 1655/6.

CARROW, HENRY, brother of John Monson Carrow (qv); b. 8 Sep 1813; adm. 28 Mar 1827 (Singleton's); KS 1828; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1832, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1832, scholar 1833; one of founders of Third Trinity Boat Club 1833, consisting only of Old Etonians and OWW; rowed no. 3 in the boat which first became head of the river, 1834; BA 1836; MA 1842; ordained deacon 9 Apr 1837, priest 1838 (both Bath & Wells); Curate, Rampisham, Somerset, 1841, Loxton, Somerset, 1843; Rector of Loxton, Somerset, 1850-65; Chaplain to Axbridge Union 1861-5, Isle of Thanet Union 1872-6, Watford Union 1876-80; m. 1st, 19 Dec 1840 (IGI) Leah, dau. of John Cook, London; 2nd, 26 Nov 1850 (IGI) Amelia, dau. of Capt. --- Cleather, 20th Foot [was this Edward John Cleather, Lieut. Royal Staff Corps in 1829 ?]; d. 30 Sep 1887.

CARROW, JOHN MONSON, eldest son of Rev. Richard Carrow, Perpetual Curate of Westbury-upon-Trym, Gloucs., and Mary, elder dau. of William Elton, Clifton, Bristol; b. 14 Dec 1807; adm. 26 Mar 1819 (Du Brieux's); KS 1822; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1826, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1826, scholar 1827; BA 1831; called to bar, Inner Temple, 31 Jan 1834; Western Circuit; County Court Judge, Circuit 57 (Somerset), from 13 Mar 1847; Recorder of Wells from 1852; one of compilers of New Sessions Cases, vols i-ii, 1845-7; m. 26 May 1847 Gertrude Frances, dau. of Edmund Broderip, The Manor House, Cossington, Somerset; d. 8 May 1853.

CARTER, BENJAMIN, son of Jeremiah Carter; b.; adm.; KS 1680; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1686, matr. 17 Dec 1686, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1686 - void 1696; BA 1690; MA 1693; ordained; Chaplain to Duke of Devonshire; Rector of Wilford, Notts., from 1694; Rector of Llandrillo yn Edeirnion [check], Merioneth, 1700; Prebendary of Southwell from 26 Apr 1705; d. c. Dec 1732 (will proved PCC 19 Jan 1733, as Rector of Wilford). [perhaps bapt. St. Peter le Poer, London, 2 Feb 1664, son of Jeremiah Carter, and Mary (probably Lloyd) (IGI), but date seems too early]