Family
Carpenter was born 21 October 1812 in Russell Square, London. He was the son of another Richard Carpenter, a magistrate, (baptised 20 July 1788 in St. Giles, Cripplegate), and Sophia (Page) Carpenter. His parents married in 1804 in St. James, Clerkenwell, London, England and lived a moderately affluent family life in Russell Square, London.
He married Amelia Dollman, who was born about 1818 at Loders, Dorset. His son Richard Herbert Carpenter, (born 1841 in St. Pancras, London, died 1893), was also a Gothic revival ecclesiastical architect.
Carpenter died on 27 March 1855, at his home in Upper Bedford Place, Russell Square. He died from tuberculosis at the age of 42, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. His obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine said "it is in fact to be feared, that his laborious and zealous application to his profession tended to shorten his life."
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