Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

nearly 40 years until her death in 1870. The Alumni Cantabrigienses published in 1940 states that William Carter was admitted to Queens College, Cambridge, on 26 June 1826 obtaining his BA in 1830, the year in which he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England. His ordination as a priest within the diocese of Lincoln came in 1831. William’s early clerical positions are not wholly clear though he was probably deacon at Waltham in 1830 – for why else would he be married in Waltham Church, and not in his bride’s church. There is an entry in the clerical register showing a perpetual curate by name ‘William Carter’ at Wolstanton, Staffordshire in 1832, and the Alumni Cantabrigienses states that he was perpetual curate at Barnsley in Yorkshire from 1836 to 1838. He may have been in a clerical post in Yorkshire at an earlier date than 1836 for the 1841 census records that his eldest son, also William, was born in Yorkshire in 1834. William (junior) also later went to Cambridge – to St Catherine’s College – and Alumni Cantabrigienses is more precise in stating his birth to have been on 4 November 1833 (not 1834), at Sheffield. The Reverend William Carter Senior and his family in Yorkshire Thereafter the senior William’s career path becomes clearer. Most importantly it is known that he was perpetual curate at Malton in East Yorkshire from from 1843 to 1855, and he also served at nearby Burythorpe as rector from 1848 to 55. He then moved a few miles to Slingsby in North Yorkshire living out the last 27 years his life as rector of that village from 1855 to 1882. He died in office at Slingsby on 3 June 1882. William had inherited a church at Slingsby originating in the 15th century and falling into a very sad state of disrepair. The consequence was that during William’s incumbency, and when a third son Edmund, born in 1845, the subject of this biography, was away at Oxford, the existing church was totally demolished and the current church built in the same style. This occurred between 1867 and 1869 whilst the family continued to live in the The Rectory in Church Lane. Within the chancel of the church is a brass plaque in Family 8