Life
1686-1754; historian, political agent, biographer of the 1st Duke of Ormond;
ed. Oxford, Univ. Coll. and Brasenose; MA King’s Cambridge, 1706;
ordained, reader Bath Abbey, 1707-14; refused oath to George I; sec. Bishop
Atterbury; fled to France; used name of Phillips; Life of Ormonde
(1736) and a Collection of ... Papers (1744); enrolled subscribers
for History of England, vols. i-iii (1747-52), vol. iv posthumous
(1755). MSS collections now in Bodleian. DNB OCIL
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Works
History of the Life of James, Duke of Ormond, from 1610 to 1688,
with an account of the affairs of his time and particularly related to
Ireland; added a valuable collection of letters, 3 vols. (Bettenham, London
1735-6); see also Carte MSS at Bodleian.
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Notes
Carte was a Jacobite whose researches in Ireland for the Life of Ormond
provided a pretext for spying on behalf of the Stuart Pretender [S. Connolly].
Carte, whose first work was an exculpation of Charles I from any blame
in instigating the 1641 Rebellion, carried off cart-loads of papers relating
to the Duke of Ormond from Kilkenny Castle; these were later deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The rest of Ormond papers are in the National Library of Ireland (See C. L. Falconer, Papers relation to Ireland,
1894).
Carte corresponded with Thomas Sheridan (see Esther Sheldon, Sheridan, 1967, p. 101 ftn.)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)