George Carteret

Military Person

1610 – 1680

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Who was George Carteret?

Vice Admiral Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet, son of Elias de Carteret, was a royalist statesman in Jersey and England, who served in the Clarendon Ministry as Treasurer of the Navy. He was also one of the original Lords Proprietor of the former British colony of Carolina and New Jersey. Carteret, a town in New Jersey as well as Carteret County in North Carolina, both in the USA, are named after him.

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Born
1610
Jersey
Nationality
  • England
Died
Jan 18, 1680

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on July 23, 2013

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