Guy Carleton, first baron Dorchester

(1724-1808)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808 NRA: Carleton, Guy (1724-1808) 1st Baron Dorchester, General DNB: Carleton, Guy, first Baron Dorchester (1724-1808), army officer and colonial governor LBT ID: LdDorch1 VIAF ID: 15572900 LOC ID: n50026728	B/BAP: 1724-09-03 DIED: 1808-11-10
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Governor of Quebec, 1775-77, 1786-91; he was a leader of British forces in the American war of independence.
REFERENCES TO Guy Carleton, first baron Dorchester: Lord Cowper to Lady Melbourne, [May] 1805 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 1: ¶ 60 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. III: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 59 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter IV.