Background
CARTER, Thomas Fortescue was born on March 2, 1853. Son of Thomas Fortescue Carter and Ann Holderness of Wood Park, near Neston, Cheshire.
minister Minister of Public Works
CARTER, Thomas Fortescue was born on March 2, 1853. Son of Thomas Fortescue Carter and Ann Holderness of Wood Park, near Neston, Cheshire.
Buckfast Abbey, Devon.
Journalist until 1886. Came to Natal, 1879; acted as Avar correspondent in first Boer War. Joined Natal Bar, 1885.
Member for Klip River Division, Natal, in Legislative Assembly. Joined Mr. Moor’s Ministry, 1906. Ministerial head of the Mining and Police Departments.
Minister of Justice and Minister of Public Works, Colony of Natal. AttorneyGeneral, 1903. King’s Counsel, Judge of the Supreme Court, Natal, since 1910.
Club: Victoria, Pietermaritzburg.