Well known Yorkshire Naturalist. After leaving school he joined the staff of Hull Municipal Museum where he developed a particular interest in entomology. Studied at the Technical College in the evenings and took London University degrees in both Arts and Science. He gave courses of lectures to school children before joining the Forces in 1916.  After the War he was assigned to the Hull Education Committee as a lecturer in Nature Study when he organised excursions to places in the neighbourhood, and this led in 1929 to a full-time position as a Lecturer at the Technical College.

Educated at St John’s School, Leatherhead, Surrey and University of Kent where he read
biochemistry. From 1973 to 1977 Carter worked as a clinical biochemist at St George’s Hospital,
Tooting. From 1977 to 1990 he worked as a biology teacher, first at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse,
Gloucestershire, later at Cranleigh School, Cranleigh, Surrey, and finally at Cheltenham College,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. From 1990 until his death in 2003 Carter was head of Information
Technology at Cheltenham College.

Medical doctor, MRCS, LRCUP, who practiced for most of his professional life in Reading and Bradfield, Berks. before moving in 1932 to Kilburn, London. He died in Chichester. C. Mackechnie Jarvis, who wrote his obituary in EMM, 89, 1953, 213, notes that he was 'a genial man of somewhat excitable character' and that he had a serious motor accident in the late 1920s, but was able to continue practising although advised by his medical friends to retire.