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Born 9 May 1774 and christened 9 June at Feltham, London he was the eldest son of the Reverend Colston Carr, at the time vicar of Feltham, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bullock.[1] His elder sister, Elizabeth Ann, married Sir James Lloyd Bt MP, and his younger brother was Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry William Carr KCB. His father, later vicar of Ealing, was chaplain first to the King’s younger brother Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and, after his death, to the King’s younger son, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn.
He received his primary education at a school his father ran in Twickenham, before being sent to Merchant Taylors’ School, London.[2] From there he went up in 1792 to Worcester College, Oxford, gaining the degrees of BA in 1796, MA in 1806 and both BD and DD in 1820.[3]