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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CARKETT, ROBERT; b.; GS 1540; KS 1540-2 (Chapter Muniments 6478; PRO, Exch. Aug. Office, Misc. Books, 24).
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]
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.
CAREY, WILLIAM, son of Richard Carey, Worcester, and Margaret --- (IGI); b. 18 Nov 1769; adm. 9 Sep 1783; KS 1784; Capt. of the School 1788; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1789, matr. 12 Jun 1789, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1789 - res 23 Dec 1803, Tutor 1794-1800, Junior Censor 1798-1801; BA 1793; MA 1796; BD 1804; DD 1807; ordained; Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1800; Head Master of the School Jan 1803 - Dec 1814; Prebendary of York 22 May 1802 – res 15 May 1815; Sub-Almoner to the King 16 Feb 1808 - c. 1815; Prebendary of Westminster 18 Mar 1809 - Apr 1830; Vicar of Sutton in the Forest, Yorks., 15 Apr 1813-20; consecrated Bishop of Exeter 12 Nov 1820; translated to St. Asaph, 7 Apr 1830; gave the scenery for the Latin Play that was in use between 1808 and 1858; gave during his lifetime £20, 000 Consols for the better maintenance of the bachelor students at Christ Church, Oxford, elected from Westminster; Busby Trustee 3 May 1804; m. 2 Jan 1804 Mary, only dau. of Rev. William Sheepshanks, Minister of St. John’s, Leeds, and Prebendary of Lincoln and Carlisle; d. 13 Sep 1846. DNB.
By an indenture dated 17 Feb 1842 he gave £10,000 3 per cent Consolidated Bank Annuities, which, by an indenture dated 13 Feb 1843, he afterwards increased to £20,000, to trustees, the income from which was to be applied “to found certain exhibitions (the same to continue after his own death and that of his wife) for the better education and advancement in sound learning and religious knowledge of such Students of [Christ Church, Oxford] elected from Westminster School, as have their own way to make in the world”. In 1846 he gave £200 towards the fund for the improvement of the College Dormitory. In addition he gave the set of scenery for the Play which was in use from 1808 until 1858.
Carey, David Macbeth Moir, son of Godfrey Mohun Carey, asst master Sherborne Sch., and Agnes Charlotte, d. of Very Rev. William Milligan DD, Prof. of Theology Univ. of Aberdeen; b. 21 Jan. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (KS); left July 1935; St Edmund Hall Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1938, MA 1948; RNVR 1940-5 (Lieut.-Cdr); adm. a solicitor Jan. 1948; Legal Sec. to the Bishop of Ely 1953-82, to the Bishop of Gloucester 1957-82; Legal Sec. to the Archbishop of Camerbury and Principal Registrar to the Province of Canterbury 1958-82; retd 1982; DCL (Lambeth) 1975; CBE 1983; chairman Westminster Sch. Soc. Council 1957-75; a Governor of the school 1960-; a Busby Trustee 1975-; pres. Elizabethan Club 1978-81; m. 10 Sept. 1949 Margaret Ruth, d. of Rev. Canon William Riches Mills, HM of Highfield Sch. Liphook, Hants.; 21 Jan. 2000