The son of a schoolmaster, was born at Melbourne, Cambridgeshire, in 1824. He was apprenticed in 1841 to William Mann, of Royston, for three years. He then entered University College Hospital, and was House Surgeon to Robert Liston (qv); he worked also under John Eric Erichsen (qv) and Richard Quain (qv). Next he was Resident Clinical Assistant at the Brompton Hospital for Consumption, then an Assistant in a mining practice at Nantyglo for a year. From there he went to Cambridge as House Surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, where at the time there was only a single resident. He acted as Registrar and Anaesthetist, and also made all the post-mortem examinations. Following upon this post he was chosen by George Humphry (qv), the Professor of Anatomy, as his Demonstrator; he entered St John’s College and graduated in Arts and Medicine. Attracted by the offer of a partnership in 1866, he moved to Huntingdon and was appointed Surgeon to the County Hospital. There followed a break in his health for which he took a voyage round the world, and after his return was appointed, through Humphry, Surgeon to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and on his retirement Consulting Surgeon. He was also Surgeon to the Huntingdon Militia and to the University Rifle Volunteer Corps. He was one of the original members in 1880 of the Cambridge Medical Society, and was elected President in 1887. He was also a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and a member of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. He went to live in Kent on his retirement from practice in 1898, but returned to Cambridge, and finally, in the summer of 1904, moved to Torquay, where his son, Dr Arthur Edmund Carver, was in practice. He died at Torquay on September 7th, 1904. His Cambridge address had been 58 Corpus Buildings. Carver married Miss Emily Grace Day, who survived him. His portrait is in the Fellows’ Album. – Publications:– Papers in *Jour. of Anat. and Physiol*.