Anthony Carleton

Anthony Carleton, born about 1522, was the eldest son of John Carleton of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, and Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and Joyce Welbeck, the daughter of John Welbeck of Oxon Hoath, Kent. His maternal grandmother, Margaret Culpeper, was the aunt of Henry VIII's fifth wife, Katherine Howard. William (said to have been a priest); John (who died unmarried at Bologna); and Edward, and four sisters: Anne, who married Rowland Lytton; Katherine, who married Francis Blount, younger brother of James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy; Mabel, who married John Fetch of Haddenham, Buckinghamshire; and Jane, who married Erasmus Gainsford, son of Sir John Gainsford (d.1540) of Crowhurst, Surrey. ==Career==

, where Anthony Carleton was buried He succeeded his father in 1551. At the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I, he is said to have held a minor position in the royal household. ==Marriages and issue==

He married firstly Anne Peryent (d. 3 April 1562), daughter and coheir of Thomas Peryent of Digswell, Hertfordshire, by whom he had a son and two daughters: • John Carleton, who died without issue. and daughter of Sir John Goodwin of Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, by whom he had two sons and four daughters: and secondly Katherine Harrison (d. October 1619), widow of Thomas Spyer of Huntercombe, and daughter of Thomas Harrison (d. 25 February 1603) of East Court by his second wife, Katherine Chamberlaine. • Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester. • Elizabeth Carleton, who married Alexander Williams and resided at Cripplegate. • Bridget Carleton, who married Hercules Underhill of Idlicote, Warwickshire. Underhill sold New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon to William Shakespeare. • Alice Carleton, who was a close friend of John Chamberlain, who left her substantial bequests in his will, and may have intended to marry her. She accompanied her brother, Sir Dudley Carleton, to Venice while he was ambassador there. • Anne Carleton (d. October 1606), who married John Dove, Doctor of Divinity, rector of St Mary Aldermanbury. ==Notes==