Lieutenant-General George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter

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Lt.-Gen. George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter of Killaghy

• Born on 10 February 1656/57 at Pitcher's Ocull, Herefordshire, England.
• Son of Warncombe Carpenter and Eleanor Taylor.
• Married Hon. Alice Caulfeild, daughter of William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont and Hon. Sarah Moore, on 23 January 1693/94 at St. Edmund the King Church, London, England.
• Died on 10 February 1731/32 at age 75.1
• Buried at Ouselbury, Hampshire, England.
• His will (dated 31 December 1731) was proven (by probate) on 17 February 1731/32.
• Page to Ralph Montagu, Ambassador to France (afterwads Duke of Montagu) circa 1671 at France.
• Commissioned with the rank of Private, in the service of the 3rd Troop of Guards.
• Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Peterborough's Regiment of Horse.
• Colonel of the 3rd (King's Own) Dragoons between 1703 and 1732 serving with great gallantry in Flanders and Spain.

On 23 June 1703 he purchased the estates of Baramount and Killahy, both in County Kilkenny.

• Brigadier-General in 1705.
• Fought in the Battle of Almanza on 25 April 1707, where he helped to mitigate the English defeat.
• Major-General in 1708.
• Lieutenant-General in 1709/10.
• Fought in the Battle of Almenara on 27 July 1710, where he was severely wounded.
• Envoy to the Court of Vienna in 1715.
• Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Whig) for Whitchurch between 1715 and 1722.
• Commander-in-Chief of the forces in North Britain between 1716 and 1725.
• Governor of Minorca between 1716 and 1732.
• Created 1st Baron Carpenter of Killaghy, co. Kilkenny [Ireland] on 29 May 1719.
• Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Whig) for Westminster between 1722 and 1727. He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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