[1][2] He was the fourth son of William Adolphus Carter (1815–1901) and his wife Gertrude née Rogers (1826–1909).
[3] His father's brother was Thomas Thellusson Carter (1808–1901), who became a significant figure in the Victorian Church of England.
[4] His own brothers included William Marlborough Carter (1850–1941), who became Bishop of Zululand and then Bishop of Pretoria, before becoming Archbishop of Cape Town from 1909 to 1930,[5] and Frank Willington Carter (1865–1945), who became a businessman in Calcutta and philanthropist, co-founding the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association.
[9][10] The match was played at the Kennington Oval on 19 November 1870 and ended in a 1–0 victory to the English, with the solitary goal coming from R.S.F.
[12] Nothing is known about Carter's life after leaving Eton College in 1871, until his death from a lightning strike in the Transvaal,[8] South Africa on 16 November 1879.