Philip Carteret
Philip Carteret | |
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Rear Admiral | |
Commands held | Swallow Endymion |
Relations | Carteret family |
Rear-Admiral Philip Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity (22 January 1733, Trinity Manor, Jersey – 21 July 1796, Southampton) was a British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764–66 and 1766–69.
Biography
Carteret was the son of Charles de Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity, and his wife Frances-Mary S. Paul.[1] Carteret entered the navy in 1747, serving aboard the Salisbury, and then under Captain John Byron from 1751 to 1755. Between 1757 and 1758 he was in the Guernsey on the Mediterranean Station. As a lieutenant in the Dolphin he accompanied Byron during his voyage of circumnavigation, from June 1764 to May 1766.[2]
In 1766 he was made a
The following year he returned to Jersey as seigneur of Trinity and took part in Jersey politics. He was promoted to post-captain in 1771 and was in London on 5 May 1772, when he married Mary Rachel Silvester (1741–1815), a doctor's daughter. Four of their five children survived to adulthood, including:
- the second son, baronetcyfrom his maternal uncle Sir John Silvester
- a daughter, Elizabeth Mary (1774 – 21 September 1851, Yarmouth), in 1818 became the third wife of William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy.
Carteret's health was ruined by his voyage of exploration, and he received little reward from the Admiralty. He did not have the patrons which were necessary for naval promotion at this time, and this and his complaints before the voyage on the Swallow's ill-suitedness to the voyage ensured that his requests for a new ship in 1769 fell on deaf ears. Put on
His new ship,
See also
References
- ^ Payne, James Bertrand (1859–1865). Armorial of Jersey : being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the mediaeval antiquities of the island. A. H. Jack. p. 98.
- ^ "Carteret, Philip, Rear-Admiral". National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original on 6 September 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ISBN 0-85229-493-X.
- ISBN 0-85229-493-X.
- ^ "Captain Mosses Account of the Islands of Juan Fernandez and Masa Fuero, in the Pacific Ocean – Royal Navy History". The Naval Chronicle. Vol. 18. 1807. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
- ISBN 9780958702126.
- ^ Wallis, Helen (1965). Carteret's voyage round the world, 1766–1769. Hakluyt Society.
External links
- decarteret.org.uk : Person Sheet
- princeton.edu : Wallis and Carteret Expedition
- Hawkesworth, John; Byron, John; Wallis, Samuel; Carteret, Philip; Cook, James; Banks, Joseph (1773), An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq Volume I, London Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, retrieved 14 December 2018
- Hawkesworth, John; Byron, John; Wallis, Samuel; Carteret, Philip; Cook, James; Banks, Joseph (1773), An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq Volume II-III, London Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, retrieved 14 December 2018