Anthony Carleton (c.1522 – 18 January 1576) was a landowner and Member of Parliament, and the father of

Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester (10 March 1573 – 15 February 1632) was an English art collector, diplomat and Secretary of State. Early life He was the second son of Anthony Carleton of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and of Joyce ...

Family

Anthony Carleton, born about 1522, was the eldest son of John Carleton of

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, and

Brightwell Baldwin Brightwell Baldwin is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about northeast of Wallingford. It was historically in the Hundred of Ewelme and is now in the District of South Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as ...

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, and Joyce Welbeck, the daughter of John Welbeck of

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.Fuidge, N.M., 'Carleton, Anthony (c.1522–76), of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, History of Parliament
Retrieved 15 December 2013. His maternal grandmother, Margaret Culpeper, was the aunt of Henry VIII's fifth wife,

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. The inscription on his father's monument states that he had four brothers: George Carleton;Carleton, George (1529–90), of Overstone, Northamptonshire, Wisbech and Coldham, Isle of Ely, History of Parliament
Retrieved 10 December 2013. William (said to have been a priest); John (who died unmarried at

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); and Edward, and four sisters: Anne, who married Rowland Lytton; Katherine, who married Francis Blount, younger brother of

James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy (c. 1533 – 1582) was an English peer. Life Blount was born circa 1533 in Barnstaple, Devon, the eldest son of Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (1516–1544) and Ann Willoughby. He inherited his title on the d ...

; Mabel, who married John Fetch of

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; and Jane, who married Erasmus Gainsford, son of Sir John Gainsford (d.1540) of

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Career

He succeeded his father in 1551. At the beginning of the reign of

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, he is said to have held a minor position in the royal household. He was elected Member of Parliament for Westbury in 1559, likely through his family connection to the Blounts. However he was primarily a local official. By 1559 he was a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire and escheator for

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and

. From September 1559 to February 1565 he was receiver-general for

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and

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, and also later served as a commissioner for sewers in

, and commissioner of musters in Oxfordshire. It has been conjectured from the language of his will that he shared the

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sympathies of his brother,

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. He made his last will on 18 December 1575, and died 18 January 1576. The will was proved the following June. In it he appointed his widow, Joyce, as his sole executrix, with Thomas Wilson and Edward Denton as overseers. He left legacies of £20 to the poor and marriage portions of £200 apiece to his four younger daughters. The Queen later intervened in the administration of Carleton's estate on behalf of his 'poor widow' in connection with some land in

. Joyce Carleton was still living in 1606, when she was mentioned in a letter from John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton. He was buried in the parish church of St Bartholomew at Brightwell Baldwin, where a monument to him and to his first wife, Anne, names his son, John, and daughter, Joyce, by his first marriage.

Marriages and issue

He married firstly Anne Peryent (d. 3 April 1562), daughter and coheir of Thomas Peryent of

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, Hertfordshire, by whom he had a son and two daughters: *John Carleton, who died without issue. *Elizabeth Carleton, who married Anthony Berners of Thoby,

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. *Joyce Carleton, who according to one source married a husband surnamed Plumsted; however according to McClure she married Edward Denton. He married secondly Joyce Goodwin, widow of Robert Saunders of Flore,

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, and daughter of Sir John Goodwin of Winchendon,

, by whom he had two sons and four daughters: *George Carleton of Huntercombe,

, eldest son and heir, who married firstly Elizabeth Brockett, daughter and heir to Sir John Brocket, and secondly Katherine Harrison (d. October 1619), widow of Thomas Spyer of Huntercombe, and daughter of Thomas Harrison (d. 25 February 1603) of East Court by his second wife, Katherine Chamberlaine. *

. *Elizabeth Carleton, who married Alexander Williams and resided at

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. *Bridget Carleton, who married Hercules Underhill of Idlicote,

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. Underhill sold

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.'Final Concord Between William Shakespeare and Hercules Underhill', World Digital Library
Retrieved 20 December 2013. *Alice Carleton, who was a close friend of John Chamberlain, who left her substantial bequests in his will, and may have intended to marry her. She accompanied her brother, Sir Dudley Carleton, to

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while he was ambassador there. *Anne Carleton (d. October 1606), who married John Dove,

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, rector of

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External links

Will of Anthony Carleton of Brightwell, Oxfordshire, proved 2 June 1576, PROB 11/58/192, National Archives
Retrieved 16 December 2013
Will of George Carleton of Overstone, Northamptonshire, proved 16 January 1590, PROB 11/75/14, National Archives
Retrieved 15 December 2013
Will of Robert Saunders of Flore, Northamptonshire, proved 27 August 1560, PROB 11/43/474, National Archives
Retrieved 16 December 2013
Will of Thomas Harrison of Finchampstead, Berkshire, proved 3 March 1603, PROB 11/101/209, National Archives
Retrieved 16 December 2013

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