William Carter (bishop)

The Most Reverend William Carter KCMG
Archbishop of Cape Town
Carter, photographed in 1908
Province	Church of the Province of Southern Africa
In office	1909 to 1930
Predecessor	William West Jones
Opposed to	Francis Phelps
Other post(s)	Bishop of Zululand (1891–1902) Bishop of Pretoria (1902–1909)
Orders
Ordination	1874
Consecration	29 September 1891
Personal details
Born	July 1850
Died	14 February 1941(1941-02-14) (aged 90)
Denomination	Anglicanism
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Oxford

The Most Reverend William Marlborough Carter, KCMG^[1] (1850–1941) was an Anglican bishop and archbishop in South Africa.^[2]

Family and education

Dr Carter was born on 11 July 1850,^[3] the son of the Rev. William Adolphus Carter, and nephew of the Rev. Canon T. T. Carter. He was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford. He was married to Hester Marion Rose, C.B.E. in London in 1904. He died on 14 Feb 1941 at Bear Ash, Twyford, Berkshire, and was buried at Eton College.

His brother, Thomas Nevile Carter, played football for England in the second unofficial football match against Scotland, in November 1870.

Clerical career

Dr Carter was ordained in 1874.^[4] He held curacies at Christ Church, West Bromwich^[5] and All Saints, Bakewell. He was secretary to the Eton Mission in Hackney^[6] until his appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of Zululand in 1891.^[7] He was consecrated a bishop at St Paul's Cathedral on 29 September 1891, by Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury.^[8] He was translated to Pretoria after a unanimous election in the Episcopalian Assembly there in August 1902,^[9] and then to Cape Town in 1909 until 1930.^[10][11] He died on 14 February 1941.^[12]

Commemoration

There is a memorial to him at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.^[13] Carter House at Herschel Girls' School is named in his honour, as he was archbishop when the school was founded and a member of the first school council.^[14]

Notes and references

1. "New Peerages Conferred - Knights Commanders". Hartlepool Mail. 3 June 1931. p. 2 col D. Retrieved 17 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. University of the Witwatersrand papers
3. "Who was Who" 1897 – 2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
4. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
5. Genuki
6. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 235.
7. "Saffragan Bishop of Rochester Diocese". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 3 September 1891. p. 5 col E. Retrieved 17 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
8. "Consecration of five bishops". Church Times. No. 1497. 2 October 1981. p. 935. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
9. "Ecclesiastic intelligence". The Times. No. 36847. London. 15 August 1902. p. 9.
10. New Archbishop of Cape Town The Times Friday, 18 December 1908; pg. 13; Issue 38833; col D
11. "Ecclesiastical News". Aberdeen Journal. 19 December 1908. p. 7 col E. Retrieved 17 September 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive.
12. Obituary Dr W.M. Carter The Times Saturday, 15 February 1941; pg. 6; Issue 48851; col F
13. Cathedral web site Archived 10 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
14. "House System". Herschel Girls' School. 2007. Retrieved 17 September 2014.

• Hogarth, Oswald James; White, Ralph Layard (1952). The Life of William Marlborough Carter, Third Archbishop of Capetown: 'Eton's Gift to South Africa'. O.J. Hogarth.

External links

• Portraits of William Marlborough Carter at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• William Marlborough Carter at Find a Grave

Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by Douglas MacKenzie	Bishop of Zululand 1891 – 1902	Succeeded by Wilmot Lushington Vyvyan
Preceded by Henry Brougham Bousfield	Bishop of Pretoria 1902 – 1909	Succeeded by Michael Bolton Furse
Preceded by William West Jones	Archbishop of Cape Town 1909 – 1930	Succeeded by Francis Robinson Phelps