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George Carpenter

British Army general

Died when: 74 years 0 days (888 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

George Carpenter

Lieutenant-General George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter of Killaghy, 10 February 1657 to 10 February 1731, was a member of the landed gentry from Herefordshire and career soldier in the British Army.

He served as Commander-in-Chief, Scotland from 1716 to 1724 and as a Whig MP from 1715 to 1727.First commissioned in 1685, Carpenter took part in the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, then transferred to Flanders in 1692 for service in the Nine Years' War.

A talented cavalry leader, he held senior positions in the Allied expeditionary force that fought in Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Wounded several times, he was captured at Brihuega in 1710, then later exchanged.In January 1715, he was elected to Parliament as Whig MP for Whitchurch; although nominated as British envoy to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, the appointment was cancelled when the Jacobite rising of 1715 began, and as commander of government forces in Northern England, he played a major role in ending the rebellion in England.

In 1719, he became Baron Carpenter in the Peerage of Ireland; as holder of an Irish peerage, he remained an MP and in December 1722 was elected for Westminster, retaining the seat until he retired in 1727.

He died in February 1732, four months after his wife Alice and was succeeded by their only son, George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter.


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