Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

Old Ebor, Hawke, Thwing 108 Under-Sheriff of Yorkshire. The memorial was dedicated by the same Bishop and the Minster choir was present and sang Kipling’s recessional to a tune composed by Edmund Carter. The Yorkshire Evening Post confirmed that ‘he was a prolific writer of hymn tunes, many of which are in constant use in the Church of England, and Nonconformist places of worship, among the best known being ‘Slingsby’.’ Today at Thwing there is no shop, and the public house is closed with the possibility of a new landlord remote. Villagers may have use of a car, but the main road does not flow through the village so the setting remains rural, though from Driffield trains still run to Scarborough, Bridlington and Hull. The other lines closed more than 50 years ago. Only 160 or so adults live within the parish, and maintaining the Church by a faithful few has become a difficult task. The current vicar has four other parishes to support and the main Sunday service moves from parish to parish. The old rectory still stands, and is now a private home, having only a few years ago been used as a small training college for priests from overseas. It remains named after Lamplugh, a past Archbishop of York. The little church contains a framed handwritten record of the Rectors of Thwing. There, after the names of his many predecessors, is shown the name of ‘Edmund Sardinson Carter’. There is also a nice plaque in memory of his daughter Rosa, who had looked after him in his final years, and who lived on in the village until her own death in 1936. In the churchyard with a yew tree in the immediate background is the double grave of Edmund and his devoted wife Rosa Sophia Carter. The grave is in good order and the cross behind it with another symbol of the cross bears the words: