Carteret
Carteret names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Carteret JOHN, EARL GRAN- VILLE
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, EARL GRAN- VILLE, British statesman, born April 22, 1690. He received his education at Westminster School and Christ Church College, Oxford. Entering the House of Lords in 1711, as second Baron Carteret, he espoused the side of the Whigs, and in 1714 made his first speech in the House of Lords in support of the Protestant Succession. In 1719 he was appointed by Stanhope ambassador extraordinary to Sweden, and succeeded in arranging two treaties of peace, the first between Sweden, Hanover, and Prussia, and the second between Denmark and Sweden. In 1721 he was appointed to one of the two foreign secretaryships, that for the "Southern Department" of Europe. In 1724 Carteret was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, serving until 1726, and again from 1729 to 1730. Though he came into collision with Swift the two beover the Drapier prosecution came warm friends before Carteret left Ireland. Between 1730 and 1742 Carteret took the lead in the House of Lords of the party opposed to Sir Robert Walpole. When this opposition succeeded in overthrowing Walpole, Carteret became the real head of the administration, but was driven from power by the Pelhams in 1744, about a month after he became Earl Granville on the death of his mother. He died in London, Jan. 2, 1763.
Carteret SIR GEORGE (kärtra' or kar-ter-et')
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR GEORGE (kärtra' or kar-ter-et'), kar-ter-et'), one of the proprietors of New Jersey, born on the island of Jersey in 1599. He had a distinguished career in the British Navy, although he was expelled from the House of Commons on a charge of misappropriation of navy funds. He early manifested an interest in colonization and became, with Sir John Berkeley, one of the proprietors of New Jersey. He died Jan. 14, 1679.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were long dead when Collier's wrote in 1921, and the political narrative it gives - Carteret's Swedish embassies, his Irish lord-lieutenancy and friendship with Swift, his brief supremacy after Walpole's fall and his ejection by the Pelhams in 1744 - is still the standard account of John, Earl Granville. The details that have moved are on the other Carteret: modern scholarship puts Sir George's birth around 1610 rather than 1599, and dates his death to January 1680 rather than 1679, the discrepancy arising from the old English practice of beginning the year in March. His partner in the New Jersey grant is now normally styled John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton rather than "Sir John Berkeley," and it was his kinsman Philip Carteret, not George, who actually went out as the colony's first governor. The industrial borough of Carteret, New Jersey, incorporated in the twentieth century, keeps the proprietor's name on the map.
Written for this edition, 2026.