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George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter FRS (c. 1695 – 12 July 1749) of the Homme, Dilwyn, Herefordshire was an English landowner and
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at different periods between 1717 and 1747.


Personal details

George Carpenter was born sometime in 1695 at Ocle Pychard, only son of
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(1657-1732) and Alice Caulfield (1660-1731). In August 1722, Carpenter married Elizabeth Petty (1707?-1791); they had two surviving children,
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(1723-1762) and Alicia (c.1726-died 1794). Both made extremely beneficial marriages; George became
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, while Alicia was
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and married the
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, who was Secretary of State from 1761 to 1763.


Career

Carpenter held a number of commissions in his father's regiment, the 3rd The King's Own Hussars, including
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in 1708 when he was 13 and
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in 1712, but does not appear to have served. Regiments and commissions were then considered private assets, that could be used as an investment or to provide an income; their award to children was later discouraged, but drawing pay and delegating duties to a substitute remained a common practice. In August 1715, he was made captain in the 1st Foot Guards, then
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in the Life Guards in January 1730. Again, this did not require active service; although Guards regiments theoretically contained up to 24 companies, actual numbers were far lower and commissions often nominal. He was returned as Whig MP for
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from 1717 to 1727; after inheriting his cousin's estate at Homme in 1733, he later sat for the nearby seat of
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between 1741 and 1747. In June 1729, he was invested as a
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. In 1737, he submitted to the Society an account of a wound received by his father at the
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in 1710, when a musket ball remained lodged in his throat for nearly a year. In 1732, he was named one of the Georgia Trustees, a committee set up to establish the
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, last of the
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in
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. The brainchild of
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, it was an ambitious, philanthropic venture, which began life as a private enterprise but struggled to attract financial support and was eventually taken over by the Crown in 1752. Carpenter played a secondary role; he resigned in 1738, was re-elected in 1739, apparently against his will, before resigning again in 1740. When the town of
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was established in 1738, "Carpenter Street" was named after him. He succeeded his father in the barony on 10 February 1731. This was an
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which allowed him to remain a member of the
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. On 23 May 1733, he inherited the estate of The Homme (or Holme) in Dilwyn, Herefordshire from his second cousin, Thomas Carpenter. He died 12 July 1749 at Grosvenor Square, London and was buried in the family vault at St Andrews, Owlesbury. His will, dated 31 December 1748, was probated on 24 July 1749.


Coat of arms

Lord Carpenter's
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appear to be of French or Norman origin, "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
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during the reigns of
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& King Henry VI.Historical Manuscripts Commission, UK National Register of Archives, George Carpenter (1657–1732) 1st Baron Carpenter Lieutenant General
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/ref> 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 have 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),
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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 Du ...
(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.


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Bibliography

* * G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, UK: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 46, 54 & 126. * Peter W. Hammond, editor, ''The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times'', Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 151. {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpenter, George Carpenter, 2nd Baron 1695 births 1749 deaths People from Herefordshire 3rd The King's Own Hussars officers Grenadier Guards officers British Life Guards officers Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1715–1722 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1741–1747 Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Fellows of the Royal Society Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England