George Carleton (died 1590)
| George Carleton | |
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| Born | 1529 |
| Died | January 1590 (aged 60–61) |
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| Father | John Carleton |
| Mother | Joyce Welbeck |
George Carleton (1529 – January 1590) was a lawyer, landowner and Member of Parliament with strong Puritan sympathies. It has been suggested that he was the secret author of the Marprelate tracts, and both he and his third wife were prosecuted for their involvement in the Marprelate controversy. Although ordered to appear daily before the Privy Council in April 1589, he died in early 1590 before a decision in the proceedings against him had been reached.
George Carleton, born in 1529, was the second son of John Carleton of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, and Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and Joyce Welbeck, the daughter of John Welbeck of Oxon Hoath, Kent. His maternal grandmother, Margaret Culpepper, was the aunt of Henry VIII's fifth wife, Katherine Howard.
The inscription on his father's monument states that he had four brothers, Anthony Carleton (grandfather of Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester); William (said to have been a priest); John (who died unmarried at Bologna); and Edward, and four sisters: Anne, who married Rowland Lytton; Katherine, who married Francis Blount, younger brother of James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy; Mabel, who married John Fetch of Haddenham, Buckinghamshire; and Jane, who married Erasmus Gainsford, son of Sir John Gainsford (d.1540) of Crowhurst, Surrey.
Carleton's father had been receiver to the Abbot of Westminster and deputy receiver-general to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and through this connection George Carleton was granted an exhibition at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1552 he was admitted to Gray's Inn. He later used his legal skills in the interests of friends, kinsmen and others, acting as trustee in the affairs of his brother, Anthony Carleton, his brother-in-law, Rowland Lytton, Sir Richard Knightley, and James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy, who by 1566 was thousands of pounds in debt.
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