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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.
George Carteret, however, was determined to hold out at Elizabeth Castle, in the hopes that a royalist relief force from France would arrive, or in the hopes of frustrating the parliamentarians so much that they abandoned the siege. Elizabeth Castle was a far more imposing fortification than the likes of Mont Orgueil or St. Aubin's Fort.
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.
The Carteret estates were passed on to the late Earl's first cousin, the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne, second son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth, and his wife Lady Louisa Carteret, daughter of the second Earl Granville. He assumed the surname of Carteret and was created Baron Carteret in 1784.
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.
The de Carteret family originated in Normandy.They colonised the island of Sark as Seigneurs.At the time of the restoration, some became Barons Carteret and were granted lands in the Carolinas and in the State that became New Jersey.
Frances Carteret, Lady Carteret (née Worsley, 6 March 1694 – 20 June 1743) was an English noblewoman who served as the vicereine of Ireland. Known as a popular hostess, she was the subject of poetry by Jonathan Swift and Patrick Delany .
The Carteret Baronetcy, of St Ouen on the Island of Jersey, was created in the Baronetage of England on 4 June 1670 for Philip Carteret. He was the grandson of Sir Philip de Carteret , whose brother Helier de Carteret, Deputy Governor of Jersey, was the father of Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet.