Francis Carter (priest)
{{Short description|Anglican priest}}
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| name =Francis Edward Carter
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| title =Honorary Canon of St Edmondsbury and Ipswich
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| other_post =Dean of Grahamstown
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1851|09|09|df=yes}}
| birth_place =Pewsey, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|08|22|1851|09|09|df=yes}}
| death_place = Cambridge, England
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| education =B.A. 1875
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}}Francis Edward Carter (9 September 1851 – 22 August 1935) was an Anglican priest who served in Cornwall, Kent, East Anglia and South Africa. He died aged 83, at 13 Park Terrace, Cambridge.
Early life
Francis Edward Carter was born in Pewsey, Wilts. on 9 September 1851; he was the son of Charles Henry Carter and went to school at Epsom College, Surrey, where he matriculated in 1871.
University education and teaching career
Francis Edward Carter was admitted (as a sizar) to Trinity College, Cambridge on 22 April 1871, and graduated as follows; B.A. 1875;{{acad| id=CRTR871FE | name= Francis Edward Carter}} M.A. 1878.
He worked as an assistant master at The King's School, Canterbury, 1875–78.
Ordained ministry
Carter was ordained a deacon in 1878 and a priest in Truro in 1879; he was curate of St Paul's Truro (1878–80). He served as prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Endellion (1880-4), canon missioner of Truro Cathedral (1884–95), Select Preacher at Cambridge (1888), Six Preacher and Tait Missioner at Canterbury Cathedral (1895–1900), and was an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral (1896–1900). In early 1900 he was offered the position of dean and rector of Grahamstown, South Africa, and accepted the office,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ecclesiastical intelligence|date=8 February 1900 |page=6 |issue=36060}} travelling to the country in August that year. He stayed in South Africa until 1911, when he returned to become Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk (1911–27) and dean of Bocking (1911–27), also serving as Rural Dean of Hadleigh, Suffolk (1912–24), Proctor in Convocation (1922-9) and honorary canon of St Edmondsbury and Ipswich (1922–35).
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Published works
- {{cite book|first= Francis Edward |last=Carter|title=Preaching|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YmXcGAAACAAJ|access-date=19 September 2013|year=1909|publisher=Longmans, Green & Company|display-authors=0}}
- {{cite book|first= Francis Edward |last=Carter|title=The Truro Mission Hymn-book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RRxEnQEACAAJ|access-date=19 September 2013|year=1892|publisher=Skeffington & Son|display-authors=0}}
Notes and references
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{{Cite news | title = Ordination In Truro Cathedral | newspaper= Royal Cornwall Gazette | date = 27 December 1878 | access-date = 2016-01-07 |page=5 col D | url = http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000180/18781227/035/0005 | via= British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
{{Cite news | title = Ordination At Truro | newspaper= West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | date = 25 December 1879 | access-date = 2016-01-07 |page= 4 colA | url = http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000349/18791225/094/0004 | via= British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
{{Cite news | title = Marriage Of Canon Carter | newspaper= Royal Cornwall Gazette | date = 25 May 1899 | access-date = 2016-01-07 |page= 5 col | url = http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000180/18990525/049/0005 | via= British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
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| title =Canon F. E. Carter
| newspaper = The Times
| location =London
| date =Aug 24, 1935
|page= 12
|issue= 47151
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| title =University Intelligence
| newspaper =London Daily News
| location =London
|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000051/18761107/029/0006
| date =November 7, 1876
|issue=9530
|page=6 col D
| access-date =2016-01-07
| ref = {{sfnref|London Daily News|November 7, 1876}}
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| title =Preferments and Appointments
| newspaper =Bristol Mercury
| location =Bristol
| date =March 8, 1895
|issue = 14609
|page =2 col 6
|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000035/18950308/004/0002
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| access-date =2016-01-07
| ref = {{sfnref|Bristol Mercury|March 8, 1895}}
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{{London Gazette |issue=26797|date= November 25, 1896|page=6505 }}
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Category:Anglican archdeacons in Africa
Category:20th-century South African Anglican priests
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