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Frederick Carter

Canadian Father of Confederation (1819–1900)

Summary

Canadian Father of Confederation (1819–1900)

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	The Honourable
honorific-suffix
image	FrederickCarter.jpg
office	Premier of Newfoundland
term_start1	January 31, 1874
term_end1	April 1, 1878
predecessor1	Charles Fox Bennett
successor1	William Whiteway
monarch1	Victoria
governor1	Stephen John Hill
John Hawley Glover
term_start2	March 4, 1865
term_end2	February 11, 1870
predecessor2	Hugh W. Hoyles
successor2	Charles Fox Bennett
monarch2	Victoria
governor2	Anthony Musgrave
Stephen John Hill
birth_date
birth_place	St. John's, Newfoundland
death_date
death_place	St. John's, Newfoundland
party	Conservative Party
spouse	Eliza Bayly
caption	Carter in 1869

| honorific-prefix = The Honourable | honorific-suffix = John Hawley Glover Stephen John Hill Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter (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.

Career

Carter was born on February 12 1819, in St. John's, Newfoundland, to Peter Weston Carter. 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 and was Speaker from 1861 to 1865. In 1865, he succeeded Sir Hugh Hoyles as Premier.

Carter was a supporter of Canadian Confederation having been a delegate to the 1864 Quebec conference. 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 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.

In 1880, Carter was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, succeeding Sir Hugh Hoyles, and served in the post until 1898. During his term as Chief Justice, Carter was a valued advisor for the Colonial Governors of Newfoundland and acted as administrator of the colony in their absence.

Carter was a Freemason of St. John's Lodge, No. 579, a Newfoundland lodge under the United Grand Lodge of England.

He died in, St. John's, Newfoundland, on March 1, 1900, aged 81. His son Stanley went on to become a lawyer.

References

"CARTER, Sir FREDERIC BOWKER TERRINGTON". University of Toronto/Université Laval.
''Volume one, p. 363, [[Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador]]'', {{ISBN. 0-9693422-1-7.
(2012-03-15). "Carter, Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington National Historic Person". [[Parks Canada]].
(2005-02-05). "Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter". www.collectionscanada.gc.ca.
(2015). "Carter, Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington". www.biographi.ca.
Michael Jenkyns. (July 2017). "Canada's Sesquicentennial - Freemasonry and Confederation". Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Canada in the Province of Ontario.
(3 March 1900). "Obituaries - Sir Frederick Carter".
"Carter, Stanley Bayley".

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