He was a posthumous recipient of the British Hero of the Holocaust award for saving Jewish lives in Germany in 1938 to 1939 by issuing documents that permitted them to travel.
The men had been accused of ‘race defilement’, because they were married to, or were in a relationship with, non-Jewish German women.
With the impending outbreak of the Second World War, he was recalled to London on 17 August 1939, where he remained until 1942.
[3] On 9 December 1947, Carvell was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the British Government in Ecuador with his office in Quito.
He was a recipient of the British Hero of the Holocaust award in January 2018 for saving Jewish lives.