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next appointments were – 5 March, 1825, and 9 Dec. 1828, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot – 21 May, 1832, to the Coast Guard – 30 June, 1834, to the command of the Scout revenue-vessel – 27 June, 1837, to the Coast Guard again – and, 1 Sept. 1841, to the command of the Viper brigantine 6, on the South American station. Since 1845 Lieut. Carter has been on half-pay. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
CARTER. (Captain, 1815. f-p., 22; h-p., 27.)
John Carter is second son of the late Thos. Carter, Esq., of Castle Martin, co. Kildare, by Catherine, daughter of the Hon. John Butler, and niece of the first Earl of Lanesborough; great-grandson of the Right Hon. Thos. Carter, of Robertstown and Rathnelly, co. Meath, Secretary of State for Ireland, and Master of the Rolls; grand-nephew of the Right Rev. Philip Twysden, D.D., Lord Bishop of Raphoe, in Ireland; second-cousin of the present Earl of Jersey; and brother of Wm. Henry Carter, Esq., now of Castle Martin, Deputy-Lieutenant for the co. of Kildare, as likewise of Capt. Thos. Carter, late of the Royal Artillery.
This officer entered the Navy, 14 Jan. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Brilliant 28, Capt. Hon. Henry Blackwood, and, on 26 July following, participated, off Santa Cruz, Tenerife, in that ship’s able escape from the two 44-gun frigates Vertu and Régénérée, On next removing, with Capt. Blackwood, to the Penelope 36, he assisted, while at the blockade of Malta, at the hard-wrought capture, 31 March, 1800, of Le Guillaume Tell, of 84 guns and 1000 men, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Decrès; subsequently to which we find him attending the expedition to Egypt, and sharing in much arduous boat-service on the coast of France and off Genoa. During the peace of Amiens Mr. Carter successively joined the Sophie 18, Capt. Geo. Burdett, and Apollo 36, Capt. John Wm. Taylor Dixon. He became attached, at the renewal of hostilities, to the Euryalus 36, Capt. Hon. H. Blackwood, blockading Boulogne; passed his examination 1 Feb. 1804; and, on 20 Feb. 1805, was promoted, from the Victory 100, flag-ship of Lord Nelson in the Mediterranean, to an Acting-Lieutenancy in the Leviathan 74, Capt. Henry Wm. Bayntun, to which he was confirmed 4 Sept. following. Under the latter officer, after pursuing the combined fleet to the West Indies and back, he bore a part in the battle of Trafalgar, and, at the close of that deadly struggle, was employed, at much personal risk, in securing the prisoners and destroying the prizes. As Lieutenant, Mr. Carter’s succeeding appointments appear to have been – 28 Feb. 1806, to the Cerberus 32, Capt. Wm. Selby, in the West Indies – 3 June following, to the acting-command of the Cerf (formerly Cyane) 18, which he brought across the Atlantic with sails under her bottom and pumps going the whole passage – 1 April, 1807, to the London 98, Capt. Thos. Western, part of the force which, in the course of the same year, attended the Royal Family of Portugal in its flight to the Brazils – and, 6 Aug. 1808, to the Agamemnon 64, Capt. Jonas Rose, on the latter station. He was there advanced, 22 Aug. 1809, to the command of the Hyacinth 18; and was afterwards appointed – 3 Aug. 1811, to the Orestes 16, in the Channel – and, 23 March, 1812, to the Thracian 18. In the latter sloop he visited the Baltic and West Indies; captured, 7 Feb. 1814, the French privateer L’Emile, of 14 guns and 42 men, off St. Valery; and, on two occasions, in order to preserve the crew from destruction, was compelled to throw a part of his armament overboard. Capt. Carter – who, since his attainment of Post-rank, 7 Dec. 1815, has not been afloat – was nominated, 2 Dec. 1841, Superintendent of the Royal Hospital at Haslar, and of the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard; an appointment he retained until Dec. 1846.
He married, in 1833, Julia, eldest daughter of W. P. Georges, Esq., and has issue five sons and one daughter. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
CARTER, K.W. (Lieut., 1801. f-p., 1 7; h-p., 34.)
Robert Carter (a) died 14 Oct. 1845.
This officer entered the Navy, 3 May, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal George 100, Capt. Wm. Domett, bearing the flag of Lord Bridport, in whose ensuing action with the French fleet off Ile de Groix we find him bearing a part. On removing, as Midshipman, to the Mermaid 32, Capt. Jas. Newman Newman, he aided, 17 Oct. 1798, off the coast of Ireland, in that ship’s gallant conflict of two hours and thirty minutes with the French frigate La Loire, of 46 guns, on which occasion the former had 3 men killed and 13 wounded. After intermediately serving on board the Minorca, Capt. Miller, Loire 38, Capt. J. N. Newman, and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ship of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, Mr. Carter, within a few weeks of passing his examination, was promoted, 14 Aug. 1801, to the rank of Lieutenant, and placed in command of the Ceres, a hired barge, on the coast of Essex, which he paid off in Oct. following. His subsequent appointments were – 5 April, 1803, to the Britannia 100, Capt. the Earl of Northesk, in the Channel – 22 Aug. 1804, to the Swiftsure 74, Capt. Wm. Geo. Rutherford, under whom he pursued the Franco-Spanish fleet to the West Indies and back, and then shared, as Third Lieutenant, in the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805 – 7 Nov. 1807, as First, to the Jamaica 28, Capt. Arthur Lysaght, employed off Guernsey, Newfoundland, and Lisbon – 24 Aug. 1810, to the Experiment, Capt. Jas. Slade, guardship at Falmouth – 15 June, 1812, to the Impress service, first in the Isle of Wight, and next in the River Thames – and, in 1829, to be one of the Naval Knights of Windsor.
CARTER. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 10; h-p., 38.)
Robert Carter (b) entered the Navy, 29 Sept. 1799, as Admiral’s Servant, on board the Agincourt 64, Capt. John Bligh, bearing the flag at Newfoundland of the Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, from which ship he was discharged in March, 1800. He re-embarked, 16 May; 1805, on board the Isis 50, flag-ship in succession of Vice-Admirals Sir Erasmus Gower and John Holloway, on the same station, where he continued chiefly to serve, until the conclusion of the war, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Jamaica 28, Capt. Arthur Lysaght, Antelope 50, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, and Avenger sloop, Capt. Johnson, and, as Lieutenant (commission dated 2 Dec. 1812), in the Hazard sloop, Capt. John Cookesley. He has not been afloat since 1814.
CARTER. (Retired Commander, 1844. f-p., 13; h-p., 34.)
Samuel Thomas Carter, born 28 May, 1785, is eldest son of the late Sam. Carter, Esq., of Sudbury, Suffolk, and of Twinsted Lodge, Essex.
This officer entered the Navy, 31 Jan. 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Juno 32, Capt. Geo. Dundas, on the Jamaica station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman, 7 July, 1800, and continued in the same ship, and in the Elephant 74, commanded also by Capt. Dundas, until Dec. 1804. During that period he served in the Juno’s large cutter at the cutting out from Campeachy Bay, after a bloody conflict, in Oct. 1800, of a Spanish schooner of 12 guns and 96 men; and, while attached, in 1803, to the Elephant, he was much employed in detached service at the blockade of Cape François, where he witnessed the surrender of the French squadron with the remains of General Rochambeau’s army on board. He next in succession joined the San Josef 110, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Cotton in the Channel, Elephant, again, in the West Indies, and Royal William, flag-ship at Spithead of Admiral Geo. Montagu; passed his examination in Oct. 1807, and was confirmed, 14
