George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret (July 1667 – 22 September 1695) was son of
Sir Philip Carteret (died 1672) and the grandson of
Vice Admiral Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet (died 1680). His mother was Lady Jemima Montagu, a daughter of
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, Order of the Garter, KG Privy Council of England, PC Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Justice of the Peace, JP (27 July 162528 May 1672) was an English military officer, politician and diplomat, who fought f ...
. He was left an orphan at the age of five, and was brought up by his grandmother Elizabeth de Carteret, a daughter of
Philippe de Carteret II, 3rd Seigneur de Sark, whom Samuel Pepys called "the most kind lady in the world".
[C. H. Firth, "Carteret, Sir George, first baronet (1610?–1680" in ]Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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(OUP, 2004)
In 1681, when Carteret was fourteen,
King Charles II created him
Baron Carteret
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, of
Hawnes, in recognition of his late grandfather's outstanding loyalty to the
House of Stuart
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, both during the
English Civil Wars
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and after the
Restoration
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...
.
Carteret married
Lady Grace Granville, a daughter of
John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
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, and by her was the father of
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville and 2nd Baron Carteret.
Carteret died in 1695, aged only 26; his widow outlived him by half a century and in 1715 was created
Countess Granville.
Notes
External links
decarteret.org.uk Person Sheet
1669 births
1695 deaths
George Carteret, 1st Baron
Barons in the Peerage of England
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