Life and Career
He studied at Montem St Primary school in Finsbury Park, Christ's Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in history in 1936. A committed pacifist, Carter registered as a conscientious objector in World War II and joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit, serving in Egypt, Palestine and Greece.
He worked as a lyricist for Donald Swann's revues and musicals in the 1950s, and in 1962 produced an album "Putting out the Dustbin" with Sheila Hancock, with the song "Last Cigarette", on failing to give up smoking, that became a minor hit.
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