Frederick Carter
{{Short description|Newfoundland politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Honourable
| name = Sir Frederick Carter
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|KCMG}}
| image = FrederickCarter.jpg
| office = Premier of Newfoundland
| term_start1 = January 31, 1874
| term_end1 = April 1, 1878
| predecessor1 = Charles Fox Bennett
| successor1 = William Whiteway
| monarch1 = Victoria
| governor1= Stephen John Hill
John Hawley Glover
| office2 =
| term_start2 = March 4, 1865
| term_end2 = February 11, 1870{{cite web|title=CARTER, Sir FREDERIC BOWKER TERRINGTON|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/carter_frederic_bowker_terrington_12E.html|website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval|access-date=January 31, 2016}}
| predecessor2 = Hugh W. Hoyles
| successor2 = Charles Fox Bennett
| monarch2 = Victoria
| governor2= Anthony Musgrave
Stephen John Hill
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1819|2|12}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|St. John's, Newfoundland}}
| residence =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1900|03|01|1819|02|12|mf=y}}
| death_place = St. John's, Newfoundland
| party = Conservative Party
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| spouse = Eliza Bayly
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Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} (February 12, 1819 – March 1, 1900) was a lawyer and Premier of Newfoundland from 1865 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1878.
Career
Carter was the son of Peter Weston CarterVolume one, p. 363, Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, {{ISBN|0-9693422-1-7}}. grandson of William Carter and great-grandson of Robert Carter, who was appointed justice of the peace at Ferryland in 1750. In 1855, he was elected to the House of Assembly as a Conservative and was Speaker from 1861 to 1865. In 1865 he succeeded Sir Hugh Hoyles as Premier.
Carter was a supporter of Canadian confederation having been a delegate to the 1864 Quebec conference.{{cite web | url=http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/rech-srch/clic-click.aspx?%2Fcgi-bin%2FMsmGo.exe%3Fgrab_id=0&page_id=14306&query=Sir%20Frederick%20Terrington%20Carter&hiword=CARTE%20CARTED%20CARTERS%20CARTES%20Carter%20FREDERIC%20FREDERICKS%20Frederick%20Sir%20Terrington | title=Carter, Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington National Historic Person | publisher=Parks Canada | date=2012-03-15 | access-date=2013-06-10 | archive-date=2015-12-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210213650/http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/rech-srch/clic-click.aspx?%2Fcgi-bin%2FMsmGo.exe%3Fgrab_id=0&page_id=14306&query=Sir | url-status=dead }} However, the Conservatives were defeated on the Confederation issue in the November 1869 election by the Anti-Confederation Party led by Charles Fox Bennett. Even though Newfoundland did not join the confederation until 1949, Carter is considered one of the Fathers of Confederation. Carter became Premier a second time in 1874, serving until 1878, but had dropped the issue of joining Canada. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1878.
In 1880 Carter was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, succeeding Sir Hugh Hoyles, and served in the post until 1898.{{ cite web | url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-4000.11-e.html | title=Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter | publisher=www.collectionscanada.gc.ca | date=2005-02-05 | access-date=2013-10-06 }} During his term as Chief Justice, Carter was a valued advisor for the Colonial Governors of Newfoundland and acted as administrator of the colony in their absence.{{ cite web | url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/carter_frederic_bowker_terrington_12E.html | title=Carter, Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington | publisher=www.biographi.ca | date=2015 | access-date=2016-06-29 }}
Carter was a Freemason of St. John's Lodge, No. 579, a Newfoundland lodge under the United Grand Lodge of England.{{cite web|url=https://grandlodge.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=378&catid=42|title=Canada's Sesquicentennial - Freemasonry and Confederation|publisher=Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Canada in the Province of Ontario|author=Michael Jenkyns|date=July 2017|access-date=5 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205195647/https://grandlodge.on.ca/index.php/official-website/300-years-of-freemasonry/378-freemasonry-and-confederation|archive-date=5 December 2018}}
He died in St. John's, Newfoundland in early March 1900.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Obituaries - Sir Frederick Carter|date=3 March 1900 |page=8 |issue=36080}}
Family
Carter married, in 1846, Eliza Bayly, daughter of George Bayly, Controller of HM Customs, Newfoundland. The couple had eleven children.
References
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External links
- {{cite DCB |first=J.K. |last=Hiller |title=Carter, Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington |volume=12 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/carter_frederic_bowker_terrington_12E.html}}
- [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-4000.11-e.html Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter]
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{{s-ttl|title=Premier of Newfoundland|years=1875–1885}}
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Category:Fathers of Confederation
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Premiers of Newfoundland Colony
Category:Politicians from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Category:Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
Category:Newfoundland Colony judges
Category:Speakers of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly