Ministry of Public Instruction, then Inspector General of Schools; who married in Epperstone on 16 December 1902 Ethel Ley, daughter of Sir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet, of Epperstone Manor, Nottinghamshire. William Boyd-Carpenter (1869–1954). Annie Boyd-Carpenter (1870-1927) married Francis Wentworth-Sheilds, Bishop of Armidale. Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter (1873–1937), Conservative MP, father of John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter (1908–1998), also a Conservative MP. Harriet died in 1887 and in 1883 Carpenter married secondly, Annie Maude, daughter of publisher W. W. Gardner, with whom he had a son and three daughters. The composer Stephen Oliver (1950–1992), through his mother (Charlotte) Hester Girdlestone born 1911, granddaughter of Carpenter), and his nephew, the comedian John Oliver (b. 1977), are descendants. References Sources External links Bibliographic directory of William Boyd Carpenter from Project Canterbury "Bishop Boyd Carpenter: Sheep or Shepherd in the Eugenics Movement?" by David Morris, Galton Institute Newsletter Issue 55 (June 2005) 1841 births 1918 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Bishops of Ripon (modern diocese) William Canons of Westminster Canons of Windsor Clerks of the Closet English religious writers Honorary Chaplains to the Queen Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Parapsychologists 20th-century Church of England bishops 21st-century Church of England bishops