CARTERET, .loth, Earl Granville (1600 1763). A British orator and statesman, born April 22. 1690. His father, first Baron Carteret of Ha woes, died in 1695, and he succeeded to the peerage at five years of age. Ile was edu cated at Westminster School and Christ Chum Oxford: in 1706 was treated• D.C.L., and. ac cording to Dean Swift's humorous assertion, ear r:ed away more Greek, Latin, and philosophy than became a person of such high rank. 11c took his soot in the House of Peers in 1711; spoke in favor of the Protestant succession; received the notice of George and obtained some lucra tive appointments. In 1718-19 he was ambassa dor extraordinary to Sweden, and in 1720 nego tiated peace between Sweden. Prussia, and Han over. In 1721 he was appointed Secretary of State, and in this capacity defended the pro ceedings of the Government in the Atterbury conspiracy. In 1724he became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. and was in frequent consultation, about public affairs, with Dean Swift, who, in spite of numerous disagreements, praised his rule, His Lord-Lieutenancies (1724-26 and 1729 10) were particularly popular. From 1730 to
1742 he was one of the most determined lead ers of the opposition in the House of Lords against Robert Walpole. and on his displacement was made a Secretary' of State. He became Earl Granville at his mother's death in 1744. The same year he had to resign his seals of office, but continued to receive marks of royal favor, and in 1749-50 was elected and installed Knight of the Garter at Windsor. From 1751 to his death, January 2, 1763, he was lord president of the council under Henry Pelham. Carteret was generally admired for his handsome presence, his classical and oratorical attainments, and for his patriotism. wit, and conviviality; but his op ponents, including Pitt, hated him for his haughty contempt of their opinions. Consult: lIallantyne, Lord Carteret : ct Political Biography (London, 1887) ; Leeky, History of England in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1878.91); and Mahon, History of England, Vols. IL-IV. (London. 1836-54).