John Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of Tyrconnell
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FRS (16 December 1790 – 25 June 1853) was a British peer. He served with the North York Corps of Yeomanry.
Background
Carpenter was the second son of Charles & Elizabeth (MacKenzie) Carpenter. His father Charles (3 January 1757 – 5 September 1803) was a naval officer of rank who married on 19 May 1785 the only daughter of Thomas Mackenzie, Esq. His uncle was
George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell who died 15 April 1805, leaving the title to John's older brother
George. When George died on 20 December 1812, John inherited the title.
[Carpenter, John R. ''Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2009'' (DVD format). George the 2nd Earl is RIN 11772.]
He married on 1 October 1817 Sarah Crowe (abt 1795 – 1868), the only child of Robert Crowe, Esq., of Kiplin, county York and Anne Buckle, his wife, who was the daughter of Christopher Buckle, Esq., of Burgh, in Banstead.
[ Burke, Bernard, Sir]
''A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire''
In 1818, Sarah Crowe Carpenter inherited Kiplin Hall
Kiplin Hall is a Jacobean architecture, Jacobean historic house at Kiplin in North Yorkshire, England, and a Grade I listed building. It is not far from the River Swale in the Vale of Mowbray. Kiplin Hall is rich in education, in architecture a ...
from her father and lived there until her death in 1868.[ John and Sarah had only one child, a daughter named Elizabeth Anne Carpenter who was born and died on 19 February 1847.][
Kiplin Hall passed to a cousin, Walter Cecil Talbot, second son of the ]Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury
Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, 18th Earl of Waterford, 3rd Earl Talbot, CB, PC (8 November 1803 – 4 June 1868), styled Viscount of Ingestre between 1826 and 1849 and known as The Earl Talbot between 1849 and 1858, was a ...
, who changed his surname to Carpenter as a condition of the will. From 1887 to 1904 Royal Navy
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Admiral Walter Talbot now surnamed Carpenter lived at Kiplin Hall, near Scorton, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England.[
Note: Before actually coming to live at Kiplin, Walter Talbot Carpenter, Admiral Royal Navy, made a number of improvements to the estate and its outbuildings. In 1887, the Admiral moved to the Hall with his second wife, Beatrice de Grey, and his daughter Sarah. He died in 1904.]
Coat of arms
Lord Tyrconnell's arms
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, inherited by title from his great-great-great-grandfather Lord Carpenter, appear to be of French or Norman heritage, "Paly of six, argent and gules, on a chevron azure, 3 cross crosslets or." Crest, on a wreath a globe in a frame all or. Supporters, two horses, party-perfess, embattled argent and gules. Motto: "Per Acuta Belli" (Through the Asperities of War). These arms descend from John Carpenter, the younger (abt. 1372–1442), who was the noted Town Clerk of London
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during the reigns of King Henry V
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and King Henry VI
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.[Historical Manuscripts Commission, UK National Register of Archives, George Carpenter (1657–1732) 1st Baron Carpenter Lieutenant General]
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These arms are often referred to as the Hereford Arms, named for the later ancestral home of the Carpenter Family in Hereford, England. The crest, supporters and motto apparently has changed several times over the centuries.[''Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine''; vol. 16, Number 2, April 1925, page 60–70, article by J. Hatton Carpenter "The Carpenter Family of England and the United States."]
Sir William Boyd Carpenter
William Boyd Carpenter (26 March 1841, Liverpool – 26 October 1918, Westminster) was a Church of England cleric who became Bishop of Ripon and Royal Chaplain to Queen Victoria.
Background
William Boyd Carpenter was the second son of the Revd ...
(1841–1918), an English clergyman of the Established church
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of England, Bishop of Ripon
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, afterwards a Canon of Westminster and Chaplain to the reigning sovereign of England, wrote in a letter dated 7 August 1907 that his family bore the Hereford Arms. Sir Noel Paton, upon painting the family arms, informed him that the supporters were originally a round-handled sword, which in drawing over time became shortened, until nothing but the cross and globe were left beneath it. Those Hereford Arms were used by "John Carpenter, town clerk of London, who died 1442 A. D."[ His grandson ]John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter
John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, PC, DL (2 June 1908 – 11 July 1998) was a British Conservative politician.
Early life
He was the only son of Conservative politician Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter MP and his wife Annie Dug ...
(1908–1998), continued the arms into the new century by passing it down to his son, Thomas Boyd-Carpenter, who was himself knighted after a military career as a lieutenant-general and for public service.[
There is no direct male-to-male Carpenter descent connecting Lord Tyrconnell and Sir William Boyd Carpenter. The family connection is by marriage through the females in the family.][
The Hereford coat of arms described above should not be confused with the arms of Bishop Richard Carpenter (c 1450s?–1503) presented in the "Visitations of the County of Oxford taken in 1566, 1574, and 1634, published in 1871, which describe the arms displayed in the buildings at the University in ]Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
– "In the Lyberarye of Baliall College." – as recorded by the officials performing the visitations in those years. The Visitations describe the arms of Richard Carpenter (theologian)
Richard Carpenter (1575–1627) was an English clergyman and theological writer.
Biography
He was probably born in Cornwall in 1575. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 28 May 1592, and took his degrees of B.A. on 19 February 1596, ...
as: "Paly of nine Gu. and Az. on a chevron Arg. surmounted by a mitre Or, three cross crosslets of—nine pales alternating red and blue, with a silver chevron bearing three gold cross-crosslets.[Visitations of the County of Oxford taken in 1566, 1574, and 1634, published in 1871.]
References
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1790 births
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