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DORCHESTER, See also:DUDLEY See also:CARLETON, See also:VISCOUNT (1573-1632) , See also:English diplomatist, son of Antony Carleton of See also:Baldwin Brightwell, See also:Oxfordshire, and of Jocosa, daughter of See also:John See also:Goodwin of Winchington, See also:Buckinghamshire, was See also:born on the loth of See also:March 1573, and educated at See also:Westminster school and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in 'boo. He travelled abroad, and was returned to the See also:parliament of 1604 as member for St Mawes. Through his connexion as secretary with the See also:earl of See also:Northumberland his name was associated with the See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot, but after a See also:short confinement he succeeded in clearing himself of any See also:share in the See also:conspiracy. In 1610 he was knighted and was sent as See also:ambassador to See also:Venice, where he was the means of concluding the treaty of See also:Asti. He returned in 1615, and next See also:year was appbinted ambassador to See also:Holland. The policy of See also:England on the See also:continent depended mainly upon its relations with that See also:state, and Carleton succeeded in improving these, in spite of his See also:firm attitude on the subject of the See also:massacre of See also:Amboyna, the See also:bitter commercial disputes between the two countries, and the fatal tendency of See also:James I. to seek See also:alliance with See also:Spain. It was in his See also:house at the See also:Hague that the unfortunate Elector See also:Frederick and the princess See also:Elizabeth took See also:refuge in 1621: Carleton returned to England in 1625 with the See also:duke of See also:Buckingham, and was made See also:vice-See also:chamberlain of the See also:household and a privy councillor. Shortly afterwards he took See also:part in an abortive See also:mission to See also:France in favour of the See also:French Protestants and to inspire a See also:league against the house of See also:Austria. On his return in 1626 he found the See also:attention of parliament, to which he had been elected for See also:Hastings, completely occupied with the attack upon Buckingham. Carleton endeavoured to defend his See also:patron, and supported the See also:king's violent exercise of his See also:prerogative. It was perhaps fortunate that his further career in the See also:Commons was cut short by his See also:elevation in May to the See also:peerage as See also:Baron Carleton of Imbercourt. Shortly afterwards he was despatched on another mission to the Hague, on his return from which he was created Viscount Dorchester in See also:July 1628.

He was active in forwarding the conferences between Buckingham and See also:

Contarini for a See also:peace with France on the See also:eve of the duke's intended departure for La Rochelle, which was prevented by the latter's assassination. In See also:December 1628 he was made See also:principal secretary of state, and died on the 15th of See also:February 1632, being buried in Westminster See also:Abbey. He was twice married, and had See also:children, but all died in See also:infancy, and the See also:title became See also:extinct. Carleton was one of the ablest diplomatists of the See also:time, and his talents would have secured greater triumphs had he not been persistently hampered by the mistaken and hesitating See also:foreign policy of the See also:court. His voluminous See also:correspondence, remarkable for its clear, easy and effective See also:style, and for the writer's grasp of the See also:main points of policy, covers practically the whole See also:history of foreign affairs during the See also:period 1610-1628, and furnishes valuable material for the study of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War. His letters as ambassador at the Hague, See also:January 1616 to December 162o, were first edited by See also:Philip See also:Yorke, afterwards second earl of See also:Hardwicke, with a See also:biographical and See also:historical See also:preface, in 1757; his correspondence from the Hague in 1627 by See also:Sir See also:Thomas Phillipps in 1841; other letters are printed in the Cabala, and in T. See also:Birch's Court and Times of James I. and See also:Charles I., but by far the greater portion remains in MS. among the state papers.

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