Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville
Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville | |
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Other titles | 3rd Baron Carteret |
Born | 21 Sep 1721 Westminster, Middlesex, Great Britain |
Died | 13 Feb 1776 |
Offices | Member of Parliament for Yarmouth Bailiff of Jersey |
Noble family | De Carteret family |
Father | John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville |
Mother | Frances Worsley |
Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville, 3rd Baron Carteret, MP (1721–1776) was a Member of Parliament for Yarmouth (1744–1747) and hereditary Bailiff of Jersey from (1763–1776).[1]
Early life[]
Robert Carteret, born in 1721 and was the son of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, who was the Lord President of the Council and Frances Worsley, daughter of Sir Robert Worsley, 4th Baronet.[2]
He was educated at Westminster School (1731–1738) and St John's College (1738).[3]
Parliament[]
Carteret in April of 1744 tried to become the candidate for Cornwall, but was unsuccessful. He instead would run to be the Member of Parliament for Yarmouth during a by-election in 1744, he would not run for re-election after his term.[1]
Marriage[]
He married a French girl named Elizabeth (died 1766); however, they would not have any issue.[4]
Americas[]
Carteret, due to his inheritance from his father and his Royalist great-great-grandfather Sir George Carteret, owned vast territories in the Province of Carolina. After the outbreak of rebellion Carteret would refuse to sell the land. After his death in 1776 his nephew Henry Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret would inherit the land; however, as a result of the American Revolutionary War all land of those who supported the British was seized by the State. The British government would give compensation for the lost land.[5]
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References[]
- ^ a b "CARTERET, Robert, Lord Carteret (1721-76). | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison.
- ^ "Carteret, Robert, 1721-1776 - Westminster School's Archive & Collections". collections.westminster.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
- ^ Cannon, John (1987-05-07). Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33566-9.
- ^ Oguz, Terri (2019). The Mundens. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-0-359-60337-4.
- ^ Britain), College of Arms (Great (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620. W. Pollard.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison.
- ^ Payne, James Bertrand (1859–1865). Armorial of Jersey : being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the mediaeval antiquities of the island. University of California Libraries. [Jersey].
- 1721 births
- 1776 deaths
- Bailiffs of Jersey
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Earls Granville