Person:George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter (1)

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George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter of Killaghy (10 February 1657 – 10 February 1731) was a British army officer who also sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1727.

First commissioned in 1685, Carpenter took part in the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, before being transferred to Flanders in 1692 for service in the 1688 to 1697 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. Given command of government forces in Northern England, he played a major role in ending the rebellion in England, and was rewarded with an appointment as Commander-in-Chief, Scotland from 1716 to 1724.

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.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2.   Lt.-Gen. George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter of Killaghy, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.