Sir James Carter (25 January 1805 – 10 March 1878) was a British lawyer and judge. He was
Chief Justice of New Brunswick The Chief Justice of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada holds the highest office within the Province's judicial system. The Chief Justice is a member of the Court of Appeal, the highest court in the Province which includes five other judges plus ...
from 1851 to 1865.
Born in
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council.
Portsmouth is the most dens ...
, England, the son of British Army Captain James Carter who once was mayor of Portsmouth, Carter was educated in
Walthamstow
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where one of his schoolmates was
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation o ...
. He also attended
Manchester College, York
Harris Manchester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded in Warrington in 1757 as a college for Unitarian students and moved to Oxford in 1893. It became a full college of th ...
and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, where he was a
Cambridge Apostle.
He was called to the bar in 1832 and was appointed in 1834 Chief Justice of
New Brunswick
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by the
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
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The Secretary was supported by an Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.
Hist ...
Thomas Spring-Rice. He resigned in 1865 and returned to England.
Carter was married three times, his first wife, Emma, was the daughter of
Charles Wellbeloved
Charles Wellbeloved (6 April 1769 – 29 August 1858) was an English Unitarian divine and archaeologist.
Biography
Charles Wellbeloved, only child of John Wellbeloved (1742–1787), by his wife Elizabeth Plaw, was born in Denmark Street, St ...
.
He died in 1878 at Mortimer Lodge,
Berkshire
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.
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1805 births
1878 deaths
Alumni of Harris Manchester College, Oxford
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
19th-century English judges
English knights
Lawyers from Portsmouth
Colony of New Brunswick judges
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