https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Frederick_CarterFrederick Carter - Revision history2026-06-09T16:55:25ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.44.2https://wiki.sarg.dev/index.php?title=Frederick_Carter&diff=326729&oldid=previmported>Vorsicht!: Carter was not Canadian. He was born, lived, and died in Newfoundland prior to confederation.2025-09-17T12:38:20Z<p>Carter was not Canadian. He was born, lived, and died in Newfoundland prior to confederation.</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Canadian politician and Father of Confederation (1819–1900)}}<br />
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| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]<br />
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|KCMG}}<br />
| image = FrederickCarter.jpg<br />
| office = [[Premier of Newfoundland]]<br />
| term_start1 = January 31, 1874<br />
| term_end1 = April 1, 1878<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Charles Fox Bennett]]<br />
| successor1 = [[William Whiteway]]<br />
| monarch1 = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]]<br />
| governor1 = [[Stephen John Hill]]<br>[[John Hawley Glover]]<br />
| office2 = <br />
| term_start2 = March 4, 1865<br />
| term_end2 = February 11, 1870<ref name="dcb">{{cite web|title=CARTER, Sir FREDERIC BOWKER TERRINGTON|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/carter_frederic_bowker_terrington_12E.html|website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval|access-date=January 31, 2016}}</ref><br />
| predecessor2 = [[Hugh W. Hoyles]]<br />
| successor2 = [[Charles Fox Bennett]]<br />
| monarch2 = Victoria<br />
| governor2 = [[Anthony Musgrave]]<br>[[Stephen John Hill]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1819|2|12}}<br />
| birth_place = {{nowrap|[[St. John's, Newfoundland|St. John's]], [[Colony of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]]}}<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1900|03|01|1819|02|12|mf=y}}<br />
| death_place = St. John's, Newfoundland<br />
| party = [[Conservative Party of Newfoundland|Conservative Party]]<br />
| spouse = Eliza Bayly<br />
| signature = <br />
| caption = Carter in 1869<br />
}}<br />
'''Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} (February 12, 1819 – March 1, 1900) was a Newfoundlander lawyer and politician who served as [[Premier of Newfoundland]] from 1865 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1878.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Carter was born on February 12 1819, in [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's, Newfoundland]], to Peter Weston Carter.<ref name="encyclopedia">''Volume one, p. 363, [[Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador]]'', {{ISBN|0-9693422-1-7}}.</ref> He was the grandson of William Carter and great-grandson of Robert Carter, who was appointed [[justice of the peace]] at [[Ferryland]] in 1750. In 1855, he was elected to the [[House of Assembly]] as a [[Conservative Party of Newfoundland|Conservative]] and was [[Speaker of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador|Speaker]] from 1861 to 1865. In 1865, he succeeded Sir [[Hugh Hoyles]] as Premier.<br />
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Carter was a supporter of [[Canadian Confederation]] having been a delegate to the [[1864 Quebec conference]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/rech-srch/clic-click.aspx?%2Fcgi-bin%2FMsmGo.exe%3Fgrab_id=0&page_id=14306&query=Sir%20Frederick%20Terrington%20Carter&hiword=CARTE%20CARTED%20CARTERS%20CARTES%20Carter%20FREDERIC%20FREDERICKS%20Frederick%20Sir%20Terrington | title=Carter, Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington National Historic Person | publisher=[[Parks Canada]] | date=2012-03-15 | access-date=2013-06-10 | archive-date=2015-12-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210213650/http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/rech-srch/clic-click.aspx?%2Fcgi-bin%2FMsmGo.exe%3Fgrab_id=0&page_id=14306&query=Sir | url-status=dead }}</ref> However, the Conservatives were defeated on the Confederation issue in the November 1869 election by the [[Anti-Confederation Party]] led by [[Charles Fox Bennett]]. Even though Newfoundland did not join the confederation until 1949, Carter is considered one of the [[Father of Confederation#Fathers of Confederation|Fathers of Confederation]]. Carter became Premier a second time in 1874, serving until 1878, but had dropped the issue of joining Canada. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) in 1878.<br />
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In 1880, Carter was appointed [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of Newfoundland]], succeeding Sir [[Hugh Hoyles]], and served in the post until 1898.<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-4000.11-e.html | title=Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter | publisher=www.collectionscanada.gc.ca | date=2005-02-05 | access-date=2013-10-06 }}</ref> During his term as Chief Justice, Carter was a valued advisor for the [[Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador|Colonial Governors of Newfoundland]] and acted as administrator of the colony in their absence.<ref>{{ cite web | url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/carter_frederic_bowker_terrington_12E.html | title=Carter, Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington | publisher=www.biographi.ca | date=2015 | access-date=2016-06-29 }}</ref><br />
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Carter was a [[Freemason]] of St. John's Lodge, No. 579, a Newfoundland lodge under the [[United Grand Lodge of England]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://grandlodge.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=378&catid=42|title=Canada's Sesquicentennial - Freemasonry and Confederation|publisher=Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Canada in the Province of Ontario|author=Michael Jenkyns|date=July 2017|access-date=5 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205195647/https://grandlodge.on.ca/index.php/official-website/300-years-of-freemasonry/378-freemasonry-and-confederation|archive-date=5 December 2018}}</ref><br />
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He died in, St. John's, Newfoundland, on March 1, 1900, aged 81.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Obituaries - Sir Frederick Carter|date=3 March 1900 |page=8 |issue=36080}}</ref> His son [[Stanley B. Carter|Stanley]] went on to become a lawyer.<ref name="bio">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Carter, Stanley Bayley |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/835 |page=368}}</ref><br />
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* {{cite DCB |first=J.K. |last=Hiller |title=Carter, Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington |volume=12 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/carter_frederic_bowker_terrington_12E.html}}<br />
*[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/023001-4000.11-e.html Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter]<br />
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