Born in London, he was the son of Frederick Blasson Carritt, a
solicitor, and Edith, Price. He studied at
Bradfield College and at
Hertford College, Oxford, where he read
classics. Graduating with a first in 1898, he was almost immediately elected to a classical
fellowship at
University College, Oxford; within a few months, he was also appointed as the college's
tutor in philosophy, succeeding
Vernon Storr, who left the fellowship in 1899. In 1901, Carritt won the Chancellor's Essay Prize and the following year started to lecture on
aesthetics; his lectures are thought to have been among the first on that topic delivered at the university. Carritt held a university
lectureship in philosophy between 1938 and 1941. Carritt remained at University College until he retired in 1945; He died on 19 June 1964 and was survived by his wife, Winifred, who died the next year. == Works ==