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Vice-Admiral Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet ( c. 1610 – 14 January 1680 N.S.) was a royalist statesman in Jersey and England, who served in the Clarendon Ministry as Treasurer of the Navy. He was also one of the original lords proprietor of the former British colony of Carolina and New Jersey.
A British naval officer and lieutenant governor of Jersey, Carteret made the island a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil Wars and privateered in the Stuart cause, thereby winning a knighthood (1644) and a baronetcy (1645).
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A staunch supporter of both Charles I and Charles II. At the Restoration he was sworn into the Privy Council, appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (1660-70), and constituted Treasurer of the Navy (1660-7). He also became Baronet Carteret & Hawnes and was MP for Portsmouth (1661-9).
Carteret’s grandfather, Sir George Carteret ‡, had made the move to England following his resolute service in the royal cause during the Civil War and Interregnum.
George Carteret. On 21st November 1699 Edward Carteret, 3rd son of Sir Philip (who was killed at the battle of Sole Bay in 1672) and his wife Lady Jemima Montagu daughter of the 1st Earl of Sandwich, married Lady Bridget Sudbury, alias Clutterbuck, daughter of Sir Thomas Exton, in the Abbey.
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.
Sir George Carteret (kär´tərĕt), c.1610–1680, proprietor of East Jersey (see New Jersey). He served in the British navy, fought for the royalists, and became (1643) lieutenant governor of his native island of Jersey.
