Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

He was a solo bass vocalist in 1882 in the York Amateur Choral Society, which after a period of uncertainty had by 1891 reformed itself into the York Musical Society at whose annual meeting in June 1892 the Dean thanked Carter for creating a ‘capable instrumental orchestra’ and for then arranging a Mozart centenary concert. He lent church halls at St Michael-le- Belfrey to the York Orchestral Society for their rehearsals. In the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s and beyond, he was an entertainer for the York Factory Girls Club, the Quakers of Bilsdale, the York Blue Coat Boys School, the York District Teachers Association, the Church Missionary Juvenile Association, the Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, Church of England Temperance Society, the York Diocesan Choral Association, the York People’s Entertainment Society (at one time chairman), the Yorkshire Fine Art and Industrial Institution, and a participant in many, many concerts held for fund raising purposes by churches and organisations in and around York. He took part as a singer in Easter and Christmas performances at the Theatre Royal, York. Those just mentioned are but samples of his social activity in the city. For personal recreation he enjoyed his long membership of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. His travels took him back to Durham, and the Durham County Advertiser in February 1894 reported on a free concert for the people of the city of Durham in the town hall. Carter was praised for his renditions of ‘De Ole Banjo’, ‘My Old Dutch’, ‘Ye banks and braes’ and ‘The Comrades’ and for duets in Durham and Yorkshire dialects ‘Leeak ahead’ - and all this on his birthday. His versatility, and he often also played the pianoforte, was enormous. Military, civic chaplaincies and politics By 1888 newspaper reports show him to be an acting chaplain of the 1st Volunteer Battalion (Prince of Wales Own) West Yorkshire Regiment and he became a regular preacher at the Garrison Chapel, Cavalry Barracks, Fulford near York. The battalion was important to West Yorkshire and beyond, and by 1889 had detachments at York, Harrogate, Knaresborough, York 54