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Henry Vandyke Carter

Doctor and Artist

Henry Vandyke Carter was the son of Henry Barlow Carter, artist, and Eliza Caroline Barlow; he was born in Scarborough and baptised at St Mary’s Church on 8 July 1831.

It was Eliza’s wish that Henry should have the middle name Van Dyck after the famous artist Anthony Van Dyck, however, at the christening in St Mary’s Church there was a misunderstanding and Henry was registered as Henry Vandyke Carter.

As he grew up, he inherited his father’s talent as an artist, but on returning, aged 15, from his schooling at Hull’s Old Grammar School, where the headmaster was one of his uncles, he decided to follow a career in medicine.

He was apprenticed to the Scarborough physicians Travis and Dunn of Newborough Street, who taught him for nine months, but to progress he needed to become a licenced practitioner and to obtain these qualifications he had to leave Scarborough.

Henrys father, Henry, arranged for his son to be