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Arms of Carteret: Gules, four fusils in fess argent. 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 colonies of Carolina and New ...
In 1681, he was raised to the status of Baron Carteret. The Carterets had three sons: George Carteret (11 February 1689 – 8 June 1689), died in infancy; John Carteret, later 2nd Earl Granville (1690–1763), who was married twice: first, to Frances Worsley in 1710, and second, to Lady Sophia Fermor, in 1744. He had children by both marriages.
He was the eldest son of Sir George Carteret and his wife and cousin, Elizabeth de Cartetet. [1]Philip was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 15 February 1665.. He married Lady Jemima Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich and Jemima Crewe, in an arranged marriage on 31 July 1665.
Carteret married Lady Grace Granville, a daughter of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, and by her was the father of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville and 2nd Baron Carteret. Carteret died in 1695, aged only 26; his widow outlived him by half a century and in 1715 was created Countess Granville.
This branch of the Fitzmaurice family descends from John Fitzmaurice, second son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry (see Earl of Kerry for earlier history of the family), and his wife Anne, the daughter of the political economist Sir William Petty, whose wife had been created Baroness Shelburne for her own life only and whose two sons had been created at different times Baron Shelburne ...
Georgiana Caroline Clavering-Cowper, Countess Cowper (née Hon. Georgiana Carteret; 12 March 1715 – 21 August 1780) was an English noblewoman and literary patron. Countess Cowper was the third daughter of John Carteret and his first wife, the former Frances Worsley. Her first husband, whom she married on 14 February 1732, was John Spencer MP. [1]
The approximate location of the dividing line between the Granville District and the Royal territory. The Granville District (or Granville's district) was an approximately 60-mile wide strip of land in the North Carolina colony adjoining the boundary with the Province of Virginia, lying between north latitudes 35° 34' and 36° 30'.
Louisa Thynne, Viscountess Weymouth (née Carteret; 15 September 1714 – 25 December 1736) was an English noblewoman. She was the second wife of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth . She was the daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville , and his first wife, the former Frances Worsley .