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Surname	Carter	Alternative Surname
First Name	John	Initial of Surname	C
Year of Birth/Baptism	c1744	Flourished
Year of Death	by 1782
Biographical Details	Dossie notes that he was ‘apprentice to [Henry] Cheere’ in 1762, when on 3 June he won a premium from the Society of Arts for an ornamental composition in clay, awarded to sculptors under 19 (3). That year he gained a second premium for a clay model (1). A third premium came his way on 24 May 1765 (2). Dossie noted in his Memoirs that Carter was dead by 1782. Literary References: Dossie 1782, 438-9 Archival References: RSA Minutes, 1761-62, seq 3, f 64