CARPENTER, George. Entered Bengal army 1791; colonel 49 Bengal N.I. 29 April 1823 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. 7 Great Cumberland place, London 30 Jany. 1855 aged 91.
CARPENTER, Joseph Edwards. b. London 2 Nov. 1813; wrote for magazines at a very early age; gave a musical entertainment called The Road, the Rail and the River in London and the provinces; produced The Sanctuary a musical drama in 2 acts 1854, Love and Honour a drama in 3 acts at Surrey theatre 1854 and Adam Bede a drama in 3 acts at same house 1862; author of upwards of 2500 songs and duets; edited Penny Readings in prose and verse 10 vols. 1865–7; author of Random rhymes or lays of London 1833; Lays for light hearts 1835; Songs and ballads 1844; Poems and lyrics 1845; Border ballads 1846; Lays and legends of fairy land 1849; My jubilee volume 1883. d. 20 Norland sq. Bayswater, London 6 May 1885. Illust. news of the world ii, 425 (1858), portrait.
CARPENTER, Margaret Sarah (2 dau. of Alexander Geddes of Alderbury, Wiltshire). b. Salisbury 1793; portrait painter in London 1814; exhibited 147 pictures at the R.A. 50 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–66; granted civil list pension of £100 per annum 29 Nov. 1866. (m. 1817 Wm. Hookham Carpenter 1792–1866). d. 22 Upper Gloucester place, London 13 Nov. 1872. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists i, 386–8 (1876).
CARPENTER, Mary (eld. child of Rev. Lant Carpenter of Bristol, Unitarian minister 1780–1840). b. Exeter 3 April 1807; kept a school with her mother at Bristol 1829; opened a ragged school in Bristol 1 Aug. 1846, a reformatory at Kingswood 11 Sep. 1852, a reformatory for girls in Park row, Bristol 10 Oct. 1854 and a certified industrial school there April 1859; took leading part in conferences on ragged schools held in Birmingham, Dec. 1851, Dec. 1853 and Jany, 1861; visited India 1866–7, 1868–9, 1869–70 and 1875–6; visited America and Canada 1873; read many papers at meetings of Social Science Association; author of Meditations and prayers anon. 1845; Our convicts, how they are made and should be treated 2 vols. 1864; Six months in India 2 vols. 1868 and 9 other books. d. Bristol 14 June 1877. Life and work of Mary Carpenter by J. E. Carpenter 1879, portrait; Theological Review, April 1880 p. 279; The children of the street by M. H. Hart 1880; Fortnightly Review xxxiii, 662–71 (1880); Graphic xv, 624 (1877), portrait; Times 18 June 1877 p. 8, cols. 3–5.
CARPENTER, Rev. Philip Pearsall (brother of the preceding). b. Bristol, Nov. 1819; ed. at Bristol and York; B.A. London 1841; Presbyterian minister at Stand, then at Warrington 1846–61; bought a vast collection of 14 tons of shells in Liverpool for £50, 1855, a full report on these shells occupies 209 pages of British Association report for 1856; lived in Montreal 1865 to death; formed a great collection of Chitonidæ. d. Montreal 24 May 1877. Memoir of P. P. Carpenter edited by R. L. Carpenter 1880, portrait.
CARPENTER, Richard Cromwell (son of Richard Carpenter of Middlesex). b. 21 Oct. 1812; ed. at the Charterhouse; architect in London; district surveyor for East Islington; exhibited 9 works at R.A. 1830–49; built churches of St. Stephen and St. Andrew at Birmingham 1844 and 1846, St. Paul at Brighton 1849, and St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1852 where the west window was filled with stained glass to his memory at a cost of £425; restored Chichester cathedral, Sherborne Abbey and St. John’s college, Hurstpierpoint. d. 40 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 27 March 1855.
CARPENTER, Thomas David. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. col. 1 Madras N.I. 1 Sep. 1847 to 29 Aug. 1859; M.G. 29 Aug. 1859. d. Secunderabad 17 Oct. 1860 aged 56.
CARPENTER, William. b. 1797; apprenticed to a bookseller in Finsbury; edited with Wm. Greenfield Scripture Magazine afterwards expanded into the Critica Biblica 4 vols. 1824–7; edited Shipping Gazette 1836, Era 1838, Railway Observer 1843, Lloyd’s Weekly News 1844, Court Journal 1848, Sunday Times 1854, Bedfordshire Independent 1854; issued a publication entitled Political Letters 1830–1 which was unstamped for which he was tried 14 May 1831 and imprisoned in the King’s Bench; from his prison he edited Political Mag. Sep. 1831 to July 1832, republished as Carpenter’s Monthly political mag. 1832; hon. sec. to Chancery reform association 1851–3; author of Sancta Biblica 3 vols. 1825; Scripture natural history 1828; A peerage for the people 1835, 4 ed. 1848; A comprehensive dictionary of English synonyms, 6 ed. 1865; An introduction to the reading and study of the Bible 3 vols. 1867–8. d. Colebrooke row, Islington, London 21 April 1874.
CARPENTER, William Benjamin (brother of Mary Carpenter 1807–77). b. Exeter 29 Oct. 1813; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1835; lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Bristol medical school; Fullerian professor of physiology at Royal Institution London 1844; edited British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review 1847–52; professor of forensic medicine at Univ. college London 1849–59; principal of University hall London 1851–9; registrar of Univ. of London May 1856 to Feb. 1879, F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1844, Royal medallist 1861; pres. of British Association at Brighton Aug. 1872; corresponding member of Institute of France 1873; C.B. 4 Dec. 1875; Lyell medallist of Geological Soc. 1883; author of The principles of general and comparative physiology 1839, 4 ed. 1854; Popular cyclopædia of science 1843; Manual of physiology 1846, 4 ed. 1865; Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera, Ray Society 1862. d. 56 Regent’s park road, London 10 Nov. 1885. J. Timbs’s Year book of facts (1873) 1–8, 126–33, portrait; Medical Circular ii, 169–71 (1853), portrait; T. H. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865), portrait; I.L.N. lxi, 148, 150 (1872), portrait, lxxxvii, 559 (1885), portrait.
CARPENTER, William Hookham (only son of James Carpenter of Old Bond st. London, bookseller who d. 30 March 1852 aged 84). b. Bruton st. London 2 March 1792; bookseller and publisher in Lower Brook st. London 1817; keeper of prints and drawings in British Museum, March 1845 to death; a trustee of National portrait gallery 1856 to death; member of Academy of fine arts at Amsterdam 1847; F.S.A. 13 Jany. 1853; author of Pictorial notices, consisting of a memoir of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, with a descriptive catalogue of the etchings executed by him 1844; A guide to the drawings and prints exhibited to the public in the King’s library, British Museum 1858, 3 ed. 1862. d. British Museum, London 12 July 1866. G.M. ii, 410–11 (1866).