1930
(473)
(Boot Factors' Secretary)
Son of Mr. Thomas Cave Carver of Leic.; born here 9 September 1860 and descended from the Carvers of Ingarsby, co. Leic. He received his early education at a small Grammar School in Trinity Lane, Leic., which was amalgamated with the Wyggeston School at the opening of the latter in 1876; commenced his business career at the age of fifteen with the firm of which he is at present the Secretary. After being actively associated with religious work for nearly forty years, either as teacher or superintendent of the Sunday school in connection with St. Andrew's Church, he entered the council chamber for the Castle Ward in the conservative interest in 1910, a seat he held for thirteen years, being returned in 1924 for the De Montfort Ward. In 1922 he served as bailiff of the borough, was appointed a magistrate in 1924 and raised to the aldermanic bench a few weeks after completing his term of office, as Leicester's fourth Lord Mayor, in December 1931.
Mr. Alderman Carver, who is still an energetic member of the corporation, serving on several committees, married in 1888 Miss Elizabeth Tucker Brodie, a Scotch lady of Edinburgh, by whom, who is still living, he has one daughter.
Residence 1935: Aylestone Road, Leic.
Population of Leic. 1931, 239,111.
