Early Life and Schooling
Landon Carter was the son of Robert "King" Carter, a Virginia-born merchant planter. In 1719, at the age of nine, Carter was sent to England to be schooled under the early linguist, Solomon Lowe. He returned to Virginia in 1727.
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