CARTERET, John, EARL GRANVILLE, Brit ish statesman: b. 22 April 1690; d. Bath, 2 Jan. 1763. He received his education at West minster School and Christ Church College, Ox ford. From Oxford he proceeded to London, plunged into the political and social excite ments of the period, made the acquaintance of Swift and in 1710 married Lady Frances Worsley. Entering the House of Lords on 25 May 1711, as second Baron Carteret, he es poused the side of the Whigs, then led by Stan hope and Sunderland, and in 1714 made his first speech in the House of Lords in support of the Protestant Succession. On the accession of George I Carteret became a lord of the bedchamber. 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 ap pointed to one of the two foreign secretary ships, that for the "Southern Department* of Europe, and as such, attended, in 1723, the con gress of Cambria, which attempted the settle ment of differences between Germany and Spain, and accompanied George I to Berlin.
In 1724 Carteret was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland. Though he came into collision with Swift over the Drapier prosecution, the two ultimately became warm friends. 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. In the same year he became Earl Granville on the death of his mother, who had been created Countess Granville in her own right. In 1749 he became Knight of the Garter, and from 1751 to his death was lord president of the council under Henry Pelham. Consult Bal lantyne,