CARPENTER, LANT (178o-184o), English Unitarian minister, was born at Kidderminster on Sept. 2, 1780, the son of a carpet manufacturer. In 1805 he became a pastor of a church in Exeter, removing in 1817 to Bristol. At both Bristol and Exeter he was also engaged in school work, among his Bristol pupils being Harriet and James Martineau. Carpenter did much to broaden the spirit of English Unitarianism. The rite of baptism seemed to him a superstition, and he substituted for it a form of infant dedication. He was drowned on the night of April 5, 184o.