Born in Brighton on 17 June 1810, the youngest son of the Reverend Robert James Carr, then vicar of Brighton, and his wife Nancy, George was educated at Eton College.
After serving as a regular officer in the Rifle Brigade in Canada and Malta,[2] he lived in Sussex where he served as a militia officer, being appointed the first Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Royal Sussex Militia Artillery on 26 April 1853.
In 1858 his aunt Elizabeth, widow of Sir James Lloyd, 1st Baronet, left him the estate of Lancing and in 1869 he was chosen as High Sheriff of Sussex.
[5] Depressed after the death of his brother-in-law Thomas Baker, rector of Hartlebury, he shot himself at his country house of Lancing Manor, dying there on 15 June 1877.
The estate was inherited by his only surviving son, James Martin Carr Lloyd.