Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

Ealing 33 Lynch Cotton, and two Fellows, C.H.Daniel and T.W. Jackson. They stated that Carter had been known to them ‘for three years past’ in the course of which he resided at the College for 13 weeks: “having leave of absence as Scholar of the College for the earlier part of that time. And we have reason to believe that during these three years he has lived piously, soberly and honestly and diligently applied himself to his studies, nor hath he at any time, as far as we know or believe, held, taught, written or maintained anything contrary to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England. And moreover we believe him in our consciences to be a person worthy to be admitted to the sacred Order of a Deacon.” Meantime the Reverend Hilliard issued a certificate that on 4 December 1871 he had notified his congregation of the proposed ordination and that no one had expressed any impediment to such ordination. It was all rather like a reading of the banns of marriage. Whether the Provost of Worcester College had any confirmatory reports from Australia must be open to doubt but his testimonial now cleared the way for the ordination to take place and Carter with ten other young men, some destined to serve in the colonies, duly attended at the altar of St Paul’s Cathedral on 21 December 1871 for the laying on of hands by the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend John Jackson, and the pronouncement of the bishop made Carter a deacon. The archive papers contained in their original 1871 envelope state that he was nominated to a curacy at Christ Church, Ealing, at a stipend of £80 per annum. That £80, worth about £8000 in 2018, came with a free residence. In the next annual round of ordinations conducted in December 1872 in the cathedrals of England, his brother Arthur was also appointed a deacon and licensed to his curacy at Hanbury in Worcestershire.