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George Carteret.
British Royalist politician and colonial proprietor of New Jersey (1610-1679)
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About George Carteret
Vice-Admiral Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer, politician and courtier who served in the Clarendon ministry as Treasurer of the Navy. He was also one of the original lords proprietor of the English colonies of Carolina and New Jersey. Carteret, New Jersey, and Carteret County, North Carolina are named after him.
Everything about George Carteret →- Occupation
- legislator, naval officer, politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Treasurer of the Navy, Comptroller of the Navy, Member of the 1661-79 Parliament
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- 1610
- Died
- January 14, 1679