CARTER, JOHN, son of William Carter, Whethampstead, Herts.; bapt. Whethampstead 25 Mar 1604 (IGI); adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1623, matr. 24 Jul 1624, aged 18, Westminster Student to death; BA 18 Feb 1627/8; d. 1630.
Carter, Thomas Richard, ca. 1724-1795
CARTER, THOMAS RICHARD, son of Richard Carter, Haseley, Oxfordshire, barrister, Chief Justice of Glamorgan, and Bencher, Inner Temple, and Martha, widow of George Blackall, Haseley, Oxfordshire, and dau. of Rev. Thomas Cornish, Vicar of Watlington, Oxfordshire; b.; adm. Jan 1738/9 (Bambrig's); KS (aged 14) 1740; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1744, matr. 28 May 1744, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1744 - Nov 1758, Faculty Student 9 Nov 1758 - void by marriage 13 Jun 1759; BCL 1752; adm. Inner Temple 19 Jan 1745/6, chambers there from 1748, called to bar 29 Jun 1750; adm. Middle Temple 1 Jun 1756; of Bayford, Herts.; m. 7 Jun 1759 Anne Tobina, dau. of Toby Chauncy, Edgcote, Northants; d. 14 May 1795.
CARTER, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Richard Carter (qv); b.; adm. 1 Jun 1774; KS 1775; convicted with four other Westminster boys at Middlesex Quarter Sessions, 21 May 1779, of a gross assault on a man in Dean’s Yard (Annual Register, 1779, 213); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1779, matr. 3 Jun 1779, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1779 - Nov 1790, Faculty Student 10 Nov 1790 - void on marriage 25 Nov 1791; BA 1783; MA 1786; adm. Middle Temple 5 Jun 1780, called to bar 9 Feb 1787; [? also adm. Inner Temple, year 1785/6]; private secretary to William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv), when Home Secretary, 5 Jan 1795 - 6 Aug 1798; MP Tamworth 1796-1802, Callington 1807 - Apr 1810; High Sheriff, Northamptonshire 1806; m. Nov 1791 Glencairn, dau. of Walter Campbell, Shawfield, Lanarkshire, and Islay, Argyllshire; d. 10 Jun 1835.
CARTERET, HON. PHILIP, brother of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (qv); b. 6 Nov 1692; adm.; QS 1707; d. 19 Mar 1710/1. Buried in north aisle of Abbey, where his monument carries a bust showing him in full costume of QS of period, with gown, college waistcoat and linen bands; the epitaph was written by his Head Master, Robert Freind (KS 1680, qv).
Cartwright, John, ca. 1660-1714
CARTWRIGHT, JOHN, eldest son of Right Rev. Thomas Cartwright DD, Bishop of Chester, and his first wife Mary Halldenby, St. Clement Danes, London; b.; adm.; KS 1673; rejected at election in 1677, but “stayed over” and was elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1678, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1678, aged 18, scholar 1679; 4th in “ordo” 1681/2; BA 1681/2; MA 1685 (incorp. Oxford 12 Jul 1687); Queen’s Coll. Oxford; BD and DD 16 Jul 1696; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln 5 Feb 1686/7 – res by 30 May 1704, Prebendary of Worcester 8 Mar 1687/8 - res. by 12 Jun 1708; Rector of Winwick [county ?] 18 Jan 1687/8 – 1693/4; had a royal mandate to succeed his father as Vicar of Barking, Essex 13 Aug 1688; “went beyond the seas” before 20 May 1704; Chaplain, 3rd Foot, 28 Jun 1708; his name appears in Dalton’s Malplaquet Roll; m.; d. at Ghent, Flanders, probably before 1714.
Cartwright, Thomas, ca. 1626-?
CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS, son of William Cartwright, “Greeke Land”, Gloucs.; b.; adm.; KS 1640; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1642, matr. 21 Oct 1642, aged 16, Westminster Student.
CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1620, adm. scholar 1621, matr. Easter 1621; 5th in “ordo” 1624/5; BA 1624/5; MA 1630. [Probably Vicar of Lindsell, Essex 1631, and schoolmaster of Brentwood Grammar School; if so, m. 23 Jun 1631 Judith, dau. of George Wingate, Harlington, Bedfordshire, by whom he was father of Thomas Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, and therefore grandfather of John Cartwright (KS 1673, qv); d. before 1670]
Cartwright, William, 1611-1643
CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM, son of William Cartwright, Leckhampton [check], Gloucs., and Dorothy, dau. of Rowland Coles, Northway, Gloucs.; b. Sep 1611; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1628, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, Westminster Student to death; BA 1632; MA 1635; Junior Proctor 1643; his tragi-comedy, The Royal Slave, was performed before the King and Queen by the Students of Christ Church in their Hall 30 Aug 1636, the songs being set to music by Henry Lawes, and Richard Busby (qv) taking the part of Cratander with great applause; ordained; Prebendary of Chichester from 29 Dec 1638; one of Council of War 1 Sep 1642; imprisoned by Viscount Saye and Sele, but released on bail; Precentor of Salisbury from Oct 1642; was “the most florid and seraphical preacher in the University” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., iii, 69); his plays and poems were collected and published by Humphrey Moseley in 1651; Ben Jonson (qv) said of him that “my son Cartwright writes all like a man”; d. from camp fever at Oxford, 29 Nov 1643. Buried in Christ Church Cathedral. DNB.
Cary, Francis Henry, ca. 1642-1712
CARY, FRANCIS HENRY, son of John Cary, Oxford; b.; adm.; KS in 1656; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 22 Aug 1661, aged 19, Westminster Student 4 Jul 1661 - void 1668; BA 1665; MA 1669; ordained deacon and priest 1665/6; Rector of Stowe Nine Churches, Northants., from 15 May 1666; Rector of Brinkworth, Wilts., from 1671 (dispensation to hold with Stow, 1671); m. [son b. 1674]; d. 1712 (will proved PCC 18 Feb 1712).