Guy Carleton
BIRTH
Sep 3, 1724
Ulster, Ireland
DEATH
November 10, 1808
Berkshire, England
FAMILY
FATHER:
Christopher Carleton
(1749-1787)
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Carleton, Guy
(1724-1808)
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was a British Army officer, peer and colonial administrator. He twice served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of British North America in that time, and again from 1785 to 1795.
GRAVE:
CHURCH
St Swithun's Church
St Swithun's Church, Blackstocks Lane, Nately Scures, Hampshire RG27 9PH, United Kingdom
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WIFE
Lady Maria Howard
(1753-1836)
Lancelot Carleton
Maria Carleton
(1753-1836)
George Carleton
(?-1628)
Frances Carleton
Richard Carleton
(1792-1860)
Christopher Carleton
(1749-1787)
William Carleton
(1794-1869)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Siege of Quebec Marker | 67 Rue du Sault-au-Matelot, Québec, QC G1K 3X7, Canada | MARKER |
DIED:
Berkshire, England
Nov 10, 1808
In 1742, at the age of seventeen, Carleton was commissioned as an ensign into the 25th Regiment of Foot, in which in 1745 he was promoted to lieutenant. During this period he became a friend of James Wolfe; he may have served with Wolfe at the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite rising of 1745. Two of his brothers, William and Thomas, also joined the British Army.
He commanded British troops in the American Revolutionary War, first leading the defence of Quebec during the 1775 rebel invasion, and the 1776 counteroffensive that drove the rebels from the province. In 1782 and 1783, he led as the commander-in-chief of all British forces in North America. In this capacity he was notable for carrying out the Crown's promise of freedom to slaves who joined the British, and he oversaw the evacuation of British forces, Loyalists and more than 3,000 freedmen from New York City in 1783 to transport them to a British colony. Toward this end, Carleton assigned Samuel Birch to create the Book of Negroes.