page_title: Thomas Carter (1690–1763)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Carter (1690–1763) / Family
context_page_description: Thomas Carter PC was a politician, a member of parliament, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, Privy Councillor and Secretary of State for Ireland. He was "an able and intriguing man" – Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.
context_section_description: Thomas Carter was born in 1690, the son of Thomas Carter (1650–1726) and his wife born Margaret Houghton, of Robertstown, County Kildare. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and the King's Inns.
  He married 12 October 1719 at St Anne's, Dublin, Mary Claxton, youngest daughter of Thomas Claxton of Dublin and Lucy Pearce, and so first-cousin of Edward Lovett Pearce who built them a magnificent house at No.9 Henrietta Street with the finest staircase hall in Dublin.   They had two sons and three daughters.   Their daughter Frances was mother of Frances, Lady Jersey.   Their daughter Susan was grandmother of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Thomond.
  Thomas Carter made significant contributions to farming and country pursuits, not sparing any expense to bring them to perfection.   He imported the best breed of cattle.
  He originally leased Castle Martin in the early 1730s as his country seat, and did not buy the house and that estate until 1761, just two years before he died while staying with his elder son, Thomas MP, at Rathnally House, Trim.   Twelve days after his father's death Thomas proceeded with his marriage to Anna Armytage, daughter of the  Yorkshire baronet  Sir Samuel Armytage, but they had just one child, Mary, later Mrs Skeffington Thompson, before young Thomas Carter MP himself died.
  So Carter was succeeded at Castlemartin by his second son Henry Boyle Carter, named after his father's friend and political ally, Speaker Boyle.  In 1750 Henry married Susanna Shaen, widow of James Wynne, daughter of Sir Arthur Shaen, 2nd baronet, and his Catholic wife Susanna Magan, by whom Henry had three sons and one daughter.    (see Carter-Campbell of Possil). Carter's descendants continued to live at Castlemartin until they sold the estate to the Blackers in 1850.
caption: Castle Martin in the snow
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