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Author: Carter, George Redsull

Biography:

CARTER, George Redsull (1810-79: ancestry.co,.uk)

He was born on 5 Dec. 1810 and baptised on 19 Dec. at St. Leonard’s, Deal, Kent, the son of William Carter (1786-1866) and his wife Sarah Redsull (1786-1849), who had married in the same church the previous year. He was educated at Francis Gorbell’s Academy in Deal and then proceeded to study medicine at King’s College London, qualifying in 1836 (MRCS). He does not appear to have married. His first publication, The School-Boy’s Reverie (1826), to which members of his father’s family and his grandfather Henry Redsull subscribed, consists of poems written while at Gorbell’s Academy, as “a youth of fifteen.” These included two loco-descriptive Byronic travelogues (“The Mill-Walls” and “The Plain of Corunna”) and a series of shorter poems on mostly Greek themes. He declared in his preface that “Greece has ever been dear to me” and at the end of the volume advertised as forthcoming “A Poem in Five Cantos, etc [On the Greek Struggle for Independence].” It does not appear to have been published and was not included in his extensive collection (250 pages), Days Departed (1850?) of shorter youthful and later poems, dedicated to his mother who had died in 1849. He died on 13 Feb. 1879 at his residence in Castle Terrace, Deal, leaving under £5000, with bequests to an array of churches, charities, and educational institutions. (ancestry.co.uk 15 Sept. 2022; SJC 2 Apr. 1836; London and Provincial Medical Directory [1853]; The Medical Directory [1865]; LES 17 Feb. 1879; The Lancet 22 Feb. 1879; NPC; Johnson, item 172) AA

 

Other Names:

  • George R. Carter
 

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