Church Anglican Name William Carter Consecration 29 September 1891 | Ordination 1874 Province Southern Africa | |
Died 14 February 1941(1941-02-14) (aged 90) | ||
William Marlborough Carter, (1850–1941) was an Anglican bishop in South Africa.
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Family and education
Carter was born in July 1850, a nephew of Canon T. T. Carter. He was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford.
His brother, Thomas Nevile Carter (1851–1879) played football for England in the second unofficial football match against Scotland, in November 1870.
Clerical career
Carter was ordained in 1874. Following curacies at Christ Church, West Bromwich and All Saints, Bakewell. He was secretary to the Eton Mission in Hackney until his ordination to the episcopate as Bishop of Zululand in 1891. He was translated to Pretoria after a unanimous election in the Episcopalian Assembly there in August 1902, and then to Cape Town in 1909. He died on 14 February 1941.
Commemoration
There is a memorial to him at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town. Carter House at Herschel Girls' School is named in his honour, as he was archbishop when the school was founded and a member of the first school council.