Family and Education
b. 22 Apr. 1690, 1st s. George Carteret, Bar. Carteret and Lady Grace Granville, later suo jure Countess Granville. educ. Westminster 1700–5; Christ Church, Oxf. matric. 15 Jan. 1706, DCL 1756. m. (1) 17 Oct. 1710 (with £12,000), Frances (d.1743), HMC Portland, iv. 537. da. of Sir Robert Worsley‡, 4th bt. of Appuldurcombe, 3s. (2 d.v.p.), 5da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) 14 Apr. 1744, Lady Sophia Fermor (d.1745), da. Thomas Fermor, earl of Pomfret, 1da. A. Collins, History of the Noble Family of Carteret (1756), 107–9. KG 1749. d. 2 Jan. 1763; will 19 Sept. 1757–8 Sept. 1762, pr. 7 Jan. 1763. TNA, PROB 11/883.
Offices Held
Gent. of the bedchamber 1714 – 21; PC 1721; amb. Sweden 1719 – 21, France 1724 (did not go); sec. of state (South) 1721 – 24, (North) 1742 – 44; ld. lt. of Ireland 1724 – 30; ld. pres. of the Council 1751 – 63.
Palatine of the Carolinas 1695–1744;
Parlimentarian
Associated with: Hawnes (Haynes), Beds.; Arlington Street, Westminster.Gent. Mag. xxxiii (1763), 144.;
Likenesses
oil on canvas, studio of W. Hoare, c.1750, NPG 1778.
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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