Robert James Carr

Carr was the son of a schoolmaster in Twickenham, where he attended primary school, who later became vicar for Ealing. He graduated Oxford in 1792, BA in 1796 and MA in 1806. While at Oxford he was ordained bishop of Salisbury and due to his friendship with the prince regent George, Prince of Wales and was given the vicarage of Brighton. The prince regent later became his patron and Carr attended to him during his last illness in 1827. From 1819-24 he was appointed the prebendary of Salisbury, Chicester and Hereford, later becoming dean of Hereford graduating BD and DD. In 1824 he was made bishop of Chichester and appointed the honorary position of clerk of the closet until the accension of Queen Victoria who dismissed him for his conservatism. Although he spoke little in the House of Lords he attended regularly and was notably against the Catholic Relief Bill while abstaining from the 1832 Reform Bill. In 1831 he was translated to the bishopric of Worchester.