William Carter

Who was William Carter?

The Rt Rev William Marlborough Carter, KCMG, DD was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Born in July 1850, he was a nephew of Canon T. T. Carter. He was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1874. Following curacies at Christ Church, West Bromwich and All Saints, Bakewell he was Secretary to the Eton Mission, Hackney until his elevation o the Episcopate as Bishop of Zululand in 1889. He was translated to Pretoria in 1902 and Cape Town in 1909. He died on 14 February 1941. There is a memorial to him at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.