George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter

Lieutenant-General George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter was a British army officer and Whig politician. He served as Commander-in-Chief, Scotland from 1716 to 1724 and as a member of parliament from 1715 to 1727. Commissioned into the English Army in 1685, Carpenter served in the Williamite War in Ireland, before being transferred to Flanders in 1692 for service in the Nine Years' War. A talented cavalry officer, he held senior positions in the Grand Alliance expeditionary force which fought in the Iberian Peninsula during the War of the Spanish Succession. Wounded several times, he was captured at the Battle of Brihuega in 1710, then later exchanged in a prisoner exchange.