Henry John Carter (1813–95)

Surgeon and naturalist. Studied medicine at University College, London, and École de Médecine, Paris. Surgeon in the East India Company, 1842–62; stationed in Bombay from 1846. Retired to Devonshire in 1864. Noted for his papers on South Asian and Arabian geology, and for his extensive researches on sponges and foraminifera. Royal Society Royal Medallist, 1872. FRS 1859.