Catalogue description PAPERS AND DEEDS OF JOHN CARTER AND EDWARD GREENFIELD DOGGETT

Carter, John, fl 1812-1848, of Coventry

Doggett, Edward Greenfield, fl 2860-1887, of Coventry

Presented by Mrs. Doggett via sale at Sotheby's, 9th. July 1919

John Carter, characterised as Mr. Hawley in "George Eliot"'s "Middlemarch", was under-sheriff of Coventry for 25 years; as Town Clerk (1812-36), Carter was clerk of the peace for the City and County of the City of Coventry, registrar of the freemen's court (see 219/4/16 - 18: 295/48/111), clerk to the street commissioners (see 242/1/32) and clerk to the collectors of assessed taxes (66/1/19: 202/1/25), but was removed from office after the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act - his revenge was to facilitate abolition of Coventry County (1842 - see accession 186), being suspected of harbouring its 1451 foundation charter. Carter was a trustee of Edwards' Charity (101/143/1, 2, 25), for Thomas Cross' purchase of Great Heath cottages in 1826 (221/2/18 - 19) and of Jane Herbert's will (1839 - 65/2); he died on 26th. Dec., 1848, having long lived at Pinley House (242/2/58). See 50/1:101 series 1 and 136, also 101/1/41 - 44; 8/22, 194, 804; 9/55 - 56; 11/573, 997; 12/3 : 115/30: 171/14/111 : 202/1/26 XVII ; 9/5;16/10 : 206/4/1; 8 : 221/3/78 - 80; 4/10 : 242/2/1. XIV; 4/22; 7/1 : 328/7 : 346/56, 67 : 444/1 fols. 1, 2.

Edward Doggett lived in Coventry in the 1860s but in Bristol during the 1870s, dying on 18th Feb, 1887. As well as accession 14, his antiquarian collection features at accessions 18, 21, 22, 251. See 101/2/195 : 353/1/47 - 49.