George Carleton

(1651 c.-1730 c.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Carleton, George, fl. 1728 DNB: Carleton, George (1651/2?-1728x30), army officer and memoirist LBT ID: GeCarle1730 VIAF ID: 68492249 LOC ID: no91010789	B/BAP: 1651 DIED: 1730
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Military officer who published a memoir of his campaigns in 1728 long thought to be a fictional work by Daniel Defoe.
REFERENCES TO George Carleton: Charles Lamb to Walter Wilson, 24 February 1823 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1808 Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1823