The Right Honourable

The Earl Granville
Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville
Other titles3rd Baron Carteret
Born21 Sep 1721
Westminster, Middlesex, Great Britain
Died13 Feb 1776
OfficesMember of Parliament for Yarmouth Bailiff of Jersey
Noble familyDe Carteret family
FatherJohn Carteret, 1st Earl Granville
MotherFrances 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 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 woman named Elizabeth (died 1766); however, they did 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 Americans. The British government would give partial compensation for the lost land.[5]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville
16. Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet
8. Sir Philip Carteret
17. Elizabeth de Carteret
4. George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret
18. Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
9. Jemima Montagu
19. Jemimah Crew
2. John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville
20. Sir Bevil Grenville
10. John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
21. Grace Smith
5. Grace Granville, 1st Countess Granville
22. Sir Peter Wyche
11. Jane Wyche
23. Elizabeth Saltonstall
1. Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville
24. Sir Henry Worsley, 2nd Baronet
12. Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd Baronet
25. Bridget Wallop
6. Sir Robert Worsley, 4th Baronet
26. Hon. James Herbert
13. Mary Herbert
27. Jane Spiller
3. Frances Worsley
28. Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Baronet
14. Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth
29. Mary Coventry
7. Frances Thynne
30. Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea
15. Frances Finch
31. Mary Seymour

References

  1. ^ a b "CARTERET, Robert, Lord Carteret (1721-76). | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  2. ^ Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison.
  3. ^ "Carteret, Robert, 1721-1776 - Westminster School's Archive & Collections". collections.westminster.org.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  4. ^ Cannon, John (7 May 1987). Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33566-9.
  5. ^ Oguz, Terri (2019). The Mundens. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-0-359-60337-4.
  6. ^ Britain), College of Arms (Great (1887). The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620. W. Pollard.
  7. ^ Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison.
  8. ^ 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].
Peerage of Great Britain Preceded byJohn Carteret Earl Granville 1763–1776 Extinct
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