Francis Carter (priest)

The Very Reverend

Francis Edward Carter
Honorary Canon of St Edmondsbury and Ipswich
Native name
3
Other post(s)Dean of Grahamstown
Orders
Ordination1879
Personal details
Born(1851-09-09)9 September 1851
Pewsey, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Died22 August 1935(1935-08-22) (aged 83)
Cambridge, England
DenominationAnglican
SpouseSibella Fanny Sayer
EducationB.A. 1875
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge

Francis Edward Carter (9 September 1851 – 22 August 1935) was an Anglican priest who served in Cornwall, Kent, East Anglia and South Africa. He died aged 83, at 13 Park Terrace, Cambridge.[1]

Early life

Francis Edward Carter was born in Pewsey, Wilts. on 9 September 1851; he was the son of Charles Henry Carter and went to school at Epsom College, Surrey, where he matriculated in 1871.

University education and teaching career

Francis Edward Carter was admitted (as a sizar) to Trinity College, Cambridge on 22 April 1871, and graduated as follows; B.A. 1875;[2] M.A. 1878.[3]

He worked as an assistant master at The King's School, Canterbury, 1875–78.

Ordained ministry

Carter was ordained a deacon in 1878[4] and a priest in Truro in 1879;[5] he was curate of St Paul's Truro (1878–80). He served as prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Endellion (1880-4), canon missioner of Truro Cathedral (1884–95), Select Preacher at Cambridge (1888), Six Preacher and Tait Missioner at Canterbury Cathedral (1895–1900),[6] and was an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral (1896–1900).[7] In early 1900 he was offered the position of dean and rector of Grahamstown, South Africa, and accepted the office,[8] travelling to the country in August that year. He stayed in South Africa until 1911, when he returned to become Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk (1911–27) and dean of Bocking (1911–27), also serving as Rural Dean of Hadleigh, Suffolk (1912–24), Proctor in Convocation (1922-9) and honorary canon of St Edmondsbury and Ipswich (1922–35).

Marital Status

In 1899, he married Sibella Fanny née Sayer:[9] they had one son and one daughter.[10]

Published works

  • Preaching. Longmans, Green & Company. 1909. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  • The Truro Mission Hymn-book. Skeffington & Son. 1892. Retrieved 19 September 2013.

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Canon F. E. Carter". The Times. No. 47151. London. 24 August 1935. p. 12.
  2. ^ "Francis Edward Carter (CRTR871FE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "University Intelligence". London Daily News. No. 9530. London. 7 November 1876. p. 6 col D. Retrieved 7 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "Ordination In Truro Cathedral". Royal Cornwall Gazette. 27 December 1878. p. 5 col D. Retrieved 7 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "Ordination At Truro". West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. 25 December 1879. p. 4 colA. Retrieved 7 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Preferments and Appointments". Bristol Mercury. No. 14609. Bristol. 8 March 1895. p. 2 col 6. Retrieved 7 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "No. 26797". The London Gazette. 25 November 1896. p. 6505.
  8. ^ "Ecclesiastical intelligence". The Times. No. 36060. London. 8 February 1900. p. 6.
  9. ^ "Marriage Of Canon Carter". Royal Cornwall Gazette. 25 May 1899. p. 5 col. Retrieved 7 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ ‘CARTER, Rev. Francis Edward’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 26 May 2014


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