John Carter
Mayor of Oxford 1925/6
John Carter (1861–1944) was born in Toronto, and won a scholarship to the University of Melbourne, where he obtained a B.A. with second-class honours in Classics in 1882. He then came to Oxford, entering Exeter College, Oxford in 1883, winning a Richards Exhibition in 1884 and obtaining a second-class B.A. in Literae Humaniores in 1887.
Carter was ordained in London as a Deacon in 1887 and a Priest in 1888. He was Curate of St Anne’s Church, Limehouse from 1887 to 1895, as well as an Assistant Chaplain at Exeter College, Oxford from 1890 to 1895.
In 1895 the Revd Carter was appointed Bursar of Pusey House, Oxford, and lived on the premises. From 1891 to 1914 he was the Editor of the Economic Review.
Carter was elected on to the City Council as University member in 1902, when the University held twelve of the sixty seats in Oxford. In 1913 he was elected an Alderman.
Carter was elected Mayor in November 1925. The Conservative and Liberal parties had combined to ask the the University to make a nomination, and, although a University member of the Council had been elected Mayor before, Carter was the first to represent the University per se rather than a political party. A visit of the British Association took place during his mayoralty.
Carter edited the first two volumes (published in 1928 and 1933) of the set of five Oxford Council Acts books published by Oxford University Press between 1928 and 1962.
Carter died in 1944.
See also:
- The Times, 9 November 1925, p. 16a ("The new Mayor of Oxford")
- Oxford Monthly, November 1933, p. 27
- Oxford Times, 22 September 1944, p. 8f (obituary)