| rdfs:comment | - Robert Brudenell Carter (2 October 1828 - 23 October 1918) was a physician and ophthalmic surgeon. Born in Berkshire, his mother died in giving birth to him. He came into the care of a family friend, Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan. As the baby was not expected to live, Brudenell ensured he was baptised, giving him his own Christian names. Carter was subsequently raised and eventually adopted by another family acquaintance. Carter died at his home near Clapham Common in 1918, aged 90, and was buried in West Norwood Cemetery.
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| abstract | - Robert Brudenell Carter (2 October 1828 - 23 October 1918) was a physician and ophthalmic surgeon. Born in Berkshire, his mother died in giving birth to him. He came into the care of a family friend, Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan. As the baby was not expected to live, Brudenell ensured he was baptised, giving him his own Christian names. Carter was subsequently raised and eventually adopted by another family acquaintance. Following a private education, Carter was apprenticed to a general practitioner, and entered the medical school of the London Hospital aged 19. He opened a medical practice in Leytonstone in 1853 published On the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria. Soon after he moved to Putney, and published his second book, On the Influence of Education and Training in Preventing Diseases of the Nervous System in 1855. Before his second book had been published he had left for the Crimea, where he served as a staff surgeon in the British Army. Returning to England following the end of the conflict, he lived in Nottingham and Gloucestershire In 1868 he returned to London and joined the staff of the Royal South London Ophthalmic Hospital in Southwark. From 1870 to 1883 he was ophthalmic surgeon at St George's Hospital and lecturer at the hospital's medical school. In 1875 he published A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Eye , based on the lectures he gave to the students of St George's Hospital. Carter was briefly involved in local politics. In January 1889 the first elections to the London County Council were held, and he was nominated to contest the Islington West division. There were six candidates for the two seats to be filled, and Carter secured second place and election with 883 votes, 29 more than the third-placed candidate. Carter aligned himself with the Moderate Party on the council, which was allied to the parliamentary Conservative Party. When the next county council elections were held three years later, he failed to hold his seat, finishing last of four candidates. Carter died at his home near Clapham Common in 1918, aged 90, and was buried in West Norwood Cemetery.
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