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Lieutenant-General George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter (10 February 1657 – 10 February 1731) was a British soldier who served as Governor of Minorca and as Commander-in-chief of all the forces in Scotland. During the Jacobite rising of 1715 he forced the rebels under Lord Derwentwater to surrender at discretion at Preston, thus securing the throne to the reigning British Royal family. ==Background== Carpenter was the second son of Warncombe Carpenter and Eleanor (née Taylor) of Hereford. His father was the sixth son of Thomas Carpenter, Esq., of the Homme or Holme, in the parish of Dilwyn, Herefordshire. He was born at ''Livers Ocle'' in Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire (7 miles NE of Hereford City) not Hertfordshire.〔"The Life of Lord George Carpenter", published 1736 in London.〕〔Carpenter, John R. ''Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2009'' (DVD format). George is RIN 11685, George the 2nd is RIN 11686.〕〔Carpenter, Amos B. ''A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America'', a.k.a. "The Carpenter Memorial", Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 1898), reprinted and duplicated by many organizations in print, CD, and DVD formats. See page 829. *Note: This 900-plus page tome was remarkable for its day, but many corrections has been made in the genealogies it contains over the last century. The best compiled corrections to this work and related lines is in the "Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2009", data DVD format.〕 In 1693, he married at St. Edmund by license of the King to Alice, the widow of James Margetson, Esq., a daughter of William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont, and Sarah, daughter of Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Moore.〔 They had two children: *George Carpenter, later 2nd Baron Carpenter (d. 1749) *Alicia Carpenter (1705? – before 1714) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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