Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

conducting criminal trials at the courts in the castle grounds. In October 1894 he did another year as chaplain to the High Sheriff of York, this time in support of Dr Tempest Anderson JP. He was finally chaplain to another Lord Mayor of York, William Bentley from November 1906 to February 1907. By then he was starting to suffer some ill health and so may have served only a shortened term. His civic work did not extend to politics though he did attend what was described as the Great Conservative Meeting in the Exhibition Hall, York in 1885 when 5000 attended to listen to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. Other guests included the Hon. M.B. Hawke. York returned at this period two members of parliament, sometimes Conservative and Liberal, so political opinion in the city was divided. In 1889 he was on the platform when the future Lord Curzon spoke at York at a Primrose League gathering, Curzon strongly attacking the Liberal Party. He was present too at an important meeting of the York Conservative Executive Council, and the Council of Liberal Unionists when a candidate was selected to fight the Irish Unionist cause at the next election. Thereafter he was present at many other Conservative gatherings, and provided entertainment at York Conservative bazaars when some of his children were also participants. So it is very probable that Carter had Conservative leanings whilst adopting the Anglican tradition of not challenging the status quo in any political manner. He, without doubt, had a social conscience and did his utmost to give aid to the poor, and help them to attain and retain work. York 56