Edmund Carter (died in or before 1788) was an English surveyor, topographer and tutor, known as the author of the first county history of Cambridgeshire.
In earlier life, Carter was a surveyor, and worked in 1731 on a survey of an estate at Weston Longueville in Norfolk.
[1] Carter had a wife and children, and on Cole's account was physically disabled.
The family went to Ware, Hertfordshire and then Chelsea, Middlesex, where Carter was again a schoolmaster.
[1][2] Planning to write on the history of Cambridgeshire and the University of Cambridge, Carter approached the antiquarian William Cole and was rebuffed.