CARTERET, JOHN, Earl GRANVILLE, a distinguished orator and statesman of the 18th c., was b. April, 1690, his father being baron Carteret of Hawnes, Bedfordshire. His edu cation, commenced at Westminster SOHO], {VHS completed at Oxford. From the latter place, according to dean Swift's humorous assertion, he carried away more Greek, Latin, and philosophy than was at all becoming a person of such high rank. introduced into the house of peers in 1711, he spoke in favor of the Protestant succession, and hi con sequence received the early notice of George I., and obtained some lucrative appoint ments. In 1718-19, he was appointed ambassador extraordinary to Sweden, and in the following year succeeded in concluding a peace between Sweden, Prussia, and Han over. In 1721, he was appointed secretary of state, and in this capacity defended with great zeal the proceedings of government in the Atterbury conspiracy. In 1724, he was
made lord lieutenant of Ireland. During his vice-regency, he was in constant intercourse, and held frequent discussion, with dean Swift about public affairs. His lord lieuten ancy, which lasted from 1724 to 1720, and again from 1729 to 1730, was popular, par ticularly the latter period. From 1730 to 1742, he was one of the most able and deter mined of the leaders of the opposition in the house of lords against sir Robert Walpole, and on his displacement, was made a secretary of state. On the death of his mother, in 1744, he succeeded to the title of earl Granville, and in the same year had to resign his seals of office, the Broad-bottom administration (q.v.) expressly excluding him; but he continued to receive marks of the royal favor. C. was a most liberal patron of men of letters. Ile died Jan., 1763.