John Carteret Pilkington

His godparents were the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Viscount Carteret later 2nd Earl Granville, for whom Dr Patrick Delany was proxy, a churchman, Robert Clayton later Bishop of Killala, and two women writers, Constantia Grierson and Mary Barber.

[2] Unhappy there, in about 1740 he ran away to Cork, where his mother's childless uncle Dr George van Lewen gave him a temporary home.

[1] From there, he joined the composer Thomas Arne's operatic troupe,[1] with whom he made his stage debut in Dublin on 7 May 1743, singing the title role in Tom Thumb.

[1] War called him once more, when he enlisted in the force assembled by his relation, Captain John Meade of the Grenadier Guards, that left on 7 September 1746 for the abortive Raid on Lorient.

Caroline married or lived with several men, including two Americans, the New Jersey loyalist Joseph Smyth and the Massachusetts artist James Earl.