Sir Dudley Carleton (1599–1654) was a minor diplomat and
Clerk of the Council The Clerk of the Privy Council is a senior civil servant in His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, being Head of the Privy Council Office.
This historic office is less powerful now than it once was and than its Canadian equivalent, whos ...
. He was the younger son of George and Catharine Carleton née Harrison of Huntercombe Oxfordshire and lived at
Clerkenwell
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Clerkenwell was an ancient parish from the mediaeval period onwards, and now forms the south-western part of the London Borough of Islington.
The well after which it was named was redisco ...
and
Holcombe Holcombe may refer to:
Places
;United Kingdom
* Holcombe, Greater Manchester
* Holcombe, East Devon
* Holcombe, Somerset
* Holcombe, Teignbridge, Devon
* Holcombe Manor, Chatham, Kent
* Holcombe Rogus, Devon
* Holcombe Court, Devon
* Holcombe Bur ...
, Oxfordshire.
Career
Carleton was secretary to his uncle
Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester (1573–1632) and from him inherited
Imber Court Surrey.
He was sworn one of the clerks of
His Majesty's Council Extraordinary, 21 August 1623 and was knighted at Newmarket on 1 March 1629–30, being the next knight made by
Charles I Charles I may refer to:
Kings and emperors
* Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings
* Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily
* Charles I of ...
after
Sir Peter Paul Rubens. He acted as the King's agent returning to and from the Hague, where he was joined with
William Boswell
Sir William Boswell (died 1650) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1624 and 1625. He was a resident ambassador to the Netherlands from 1632 to 1649.
Life
William Boswell was a native of Suffolk. He was ed ...
in a special mission in August, 1632, and returned to England on 9 November following.
Carleton married Barbara, daughter of Adriaen Duyck, lord ("heer") of Oudkarspel and Koedijk in Holland, and secretary of the
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, and widow of Nicholas Throckmorton, and, second, Lucy, daughter of
Sir Herbert Croft of
Croft Castle
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and sister of
Herbert Croft,
Bishop of Hereford
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The episcopal see is centred in the Hereford, City of Hereford where the bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is in the Hereford Cathedr ...
and
dean of the Chapels Royal, but had no male heir.
Posterity
He was grandfather of:
from his first marriage:
*Dorothy Ferrers (died 1716)
Countess of Arran and her brother
*Sir Humphrey Ferrers (1652–1678) of
Tamworth Castle
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whose only child, Anne, took the Ferrers estates to the Shirley family. Robert Shirley then obtained the termination of the abeyance of the title of
Baron Ferrers of Chartley
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and in 1711 was created
Earl Ferrers
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from his second marriage:
*
Sir John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restorati ...
(1664–1726) and his brother
*
Philip Vanbrugh
Philip Vanbrugh (c. 1681 – 22 July 1753) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served as Commodore Governor of Newfoundland.
Family
Vanbrugh was born in Chester and baptised there on 31 January 1682. He was the youngest child of Giles Vanb ...
(1681–1753) RN, commodore governor of Newfoundland
*
Lieutenant General Edward Pearce (1658–1715), father of
Edward Lovett Pearce
Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (1699 – 7 December 1733) was an Irish architect, and the chief exponent of Palladianism in Ireland. He is thought to have initially studied as an architect under his father's first cousin, Sir John Vanbrugh. He is be ...
*Lieutenant General Thomas Pearce (1670–1739), governor of the castle and city of Limerick
*Lucy Pearce (c. 1664–1727), Mrs Thomas Claxton of Dublin, mother-in-law of:
James Johnston secretary of State for Scotland,
Richard Parsons Earl of Rosse,
Robert, Viscount Jocelyn, lord chancellor of Ireland and
Thomas Carter Irish politician
*Elizabeth Pearce (1667–1740), wife of George Eglesfield of
Queen's College,
Philadelphia
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and
Cape May
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Sources
*Contemporary publications; Pedigree of Sir Dudley Carleton, subsequently created Viscount Dorchester, by Thomas William King,
York Herald
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, F.S.A.
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English knights
Clerks of the Privy Council
People from Oxfordshire
16th-century English diplomats
Ambassadors of England to the Netherlands
1599 births
1654 deaths
17th-century English diplomats