He became Rector of Clewer in 1844, by which time he had come very much under the influence of the Tractarian ("High Church") movement which had started at Oxford some ten years earlier. He found Clewer Church in a very dilapidated state, and at first thought of abandoning it and building a new church more in the centre of the parish. However, he then decided that the historic old church must be restored.

In 1849 he founded a House of Mercy for the rescue of "fallen women" - carrying on the work which had been started in the parish by Mariquita Tennant - and in 1852 he founded a Sisterhood (Community of St John the Baptist) to take care of it. Extensions of the work of the Community spread far and wide: hospitals, schools, missions, and homes of "rescue" were established in many parts of England, in India, in the West Indies and in the USA. In Clewer, there were: St Andrew's Hospital (a Convalescent Home) (1861); St John's Home "for girls of respectable parentage" (1885); St Stephen's College for the daughters of gentlemen (1867); St Stephen's High School for Girls (1881); St Augustine's Home for Boys, and St Andrew's Almshouses. His good works and his unquestioned personal holiness did not stop his parishioners from objecting to his "High Church practices." They petitioned the Bishop, repeatedly. All over the country disputes about such practices were taking place and there were often rowdy scenes. In 1874 the Public Worship Regulation Act was passed (with the hearty approval of Queen Victoria) to suppress the growth of ritualism in the C of E. However, through the endeavours of Archbishop Tait, built into the Act was a provision, which allowed a Diocesan Bishop to veto any proceedings being taken under the Act. A parishioner in Clewer, Dr Julius, brought pressure through the Courts to force the Bishop of Oxford to act against Carter. The Bishop was not sympathetic to Carter's "High Church" practices but he refused to subject a good man to vexations at the wishes of the Courts. He took the case to the Court of Appeal, which ruled in his favour against Dr Julius. The doctor appealed to the House of Lords, but they gave decision in favour of the Bishop.

It was then that Carter decided to resign, and from the highest motives; he had received the protection of the Bishop, but he could not, in good conscience, abandon practices of which, as he knew, the Bishop disapproved. "The only course compatible with honour was to resign". He explained all this in a letter to The Times and his conduct was universally applauded. So he ceased to be Rector in 1880 and concentrated on the affairs of the Convent, as Warden.

As he lay dying, he asked his daughter to leave the curtains open so that he could gaze upon the Evening Star and this is commemorated in the miniature bronze memorial to Carter in the sanctuary of Clewer Church.

His grave, where his wife and daughters are also buried, is near to the boatyard wall on the north-west side of the church. It can be reached by taking the path to the north, from the Churchyard Cross. One of Carter's favourite religious emblems, the passion flower, is carved upon it, and the same emblem can be seen on one of Carter's stoles preserved in the Clewer History Museum.

She died on March 5^th 1910. She was the daughter of William Glover, who was Chief Tapissier to Queen Victoria (died in 1864, buried in Clewer Churchyard, with a gravestone paid for by the Queen: recently vandalised). When Miss Glover was a young girl, in the early 1850s, she went to Windsor Railway Station to watch the Queen's arrival by train. However, her father, William Glover, was in the entourage, and when Mary Ann saw him "she became oblivious of the presence of Royalty and ran to greet him."

The Queen noticed the incident and subsequently enquired who "the young person" was. She then commanded Mary Ann's presence at the Castle and enrolled her in the Royal service. Ultimately, Miss Glover "became in attendance upon the Princess Royal" and when the Princess married the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mary Ann accompanied the Royal bride to Berlin. This was in 1858 and Mary Ann remained in Prussia for a year. It was said, however, that the climate did not suit her and she was compelled to return to England. "Miss Glover was held in high esteem by the German Empress - as the Princess eventually became - who sent for her when on a visit to Windsor, not long before her (the Empress's) death and presented her with a private photograph of herself. Miss Glover possessed many souvenirs of the respect and esteem of the Royal Family." When Mary Ann returned to England the Queen presented her with an annuity for life, from the Privy Purse, and suggested that she should set up a school for young ladies. She took the Queen's advice and established Cambridge House, Grove Road. She continued to run the school until her death at the age of 74.

Miss Glover's grave is very close to the church, on the south west side. A separate stone commemorates her burial. Her father's stone which, as stated above, has been vandalised, had recorded on the back of it the occasions on which Queen Victoria visited the grave to strew flowers on it. There is a group of exhibits about the Glover family in the Clewer History Museum. The Kemp window, in the south side of Clewer Church, is in memory of Miss Glover's parents.

He was born in Bedlington in 1816 and served an apprenticeship in the Stephensons' workshop. When he was barely 21 he was chosen by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to be the first locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway. He was the "creator" of industrial Swindon, for in 1840 it was he who chose the town as the site for the GWR workshops. The engines he designed and built there have the GWR pre-eminence in speed and reliability.

In the year 1860 he was appointed engineer of the Great Eastern steamship in succession to Brunel, who had died the previous year. He later converted her for cable-laying, helped to form the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company and, after one unsuccessful attempt in 1865, he successfully laid an Atlantic cable, returning home to find himself the first engineer baronet. He was again on board in 1869 when the Great Eastern laid a French cable from Brest to St Pierre. In 1865 he was elected MP for Cricklade and in the same year he became Chairman of the Great Western Railway - a post he held until his death in 1889.

In 1859 he bought the large house and grounds which stood to the west of Mill Lane, Clewer, and was known as Clewer Park. It had been the home of the Hon Henry Ashley, brother of Lord Shaftesbury, and Gooch bought it from Ashley's widow, later buying the freehold from a Dr Proctor. In later years, he loved above all else the peace of his Thames-side home at "pretty Clewer".

In the 1860s he replaced the irregular line of cottages on the west side of Mill Lane with the houses which stand there to this day, and he also rebuilt the frontage of The Swan. His coat of arms can be seen on one of the twin cottages near The Swan.

He chose the site for his grave in Clewer Churchyard in company with the Rector, T T Carter. When his wife, Margaret, died in May 1868, he wrote in his journal: "There must have bee some presentiment in my mind of this blow that has come upon me, for it is only a few months since I asked Mr Carter if I could have reserved a piece of ground in the churchyard where I fancied I should like to make my last resting place..." He grieved deeply for his wife, but he had a strange experience which led him to remarry, to a woman whom he scarcely knew, as he believed it was his first wife's wish. In March 1869 he wrote: "I had a strange dream …going to bed feeling very weary of life and almost longing for its end, I prayed to the spirit of my poor wife for comfort. ….I could not have been long asleep when, if it was dream or reality I know not, but she stood so plainly at my side, looking Oh so sad, yet she mentioned to me the name of a lady who is almost a stranger to me, one whom I have certainly not met more than half a dozen times, but who I have often heard my wife speak of in kind terms…" The following year he married the lady.

Gooch's vault is in the south east corner of the Churchyard, easily accessible by a path. It bears his arms in bronze. At his funeral the choir sang "Art thou weary…" in the Church and "Jesus lives…" at the graveside.

His second wife, who survived him until 1901, is buried in a separate grave nearby.

He was buried in Clewer Churchyard in July 1883. At his death he was one of the Military Knights of Windsor. He was the son of General Graham, Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle.

Col Graham entered the Army as an ensign in the 70^th Foot, in October 1824, having been a Cadet at Sandhurst. During foreign service he was employed on the staff of General Maister as Deputy Judge Advocate General. Returning home as a Captain, he went on half pay from the Army to take up a post in the "Secretarial" (sic) of the South Eastern Railway. Returning to military life, he went to Canada in command of a body of enrolled pensioners. He then held the post of "Staff Officer of Pensioners" in London and elsewhere.

On the outbreak of the Crimean War he was appointed Military Secretary, in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, to General Vivian. For his services he received the Turkish Order and Medal.

In 1858 he wrote "The Elementary History of the Art of War". In 1862 he published, for private circulation, the memoirs of his father. He later published "Military Ends and Moral Means" which, it was said, "exemplified the higher instincts influencing military life." He also published a pamphlet entitled "The Constitution and Organization of Land Forces Reformed." His last literary activity was the editing of an English translation of the German work on "War" by von Clausewitz.

In addition to being a writer, Col Graham was an accomplished artist in water colour and crayons, and he painted both landscapes and figures.

She lived at 12 Keppel Terrace, and died on August 11^th 1884 in her 43^rd year. Her grave is chiefly interesting for the inscription below her name (which is fast disappearing) which says "The Last Lineal Descendant of the English Branch of Martin Luther's Family". A number of other Kellners are buried in the churchyard and one of them was a Churchwarden in the early part of the 19^th century. His name may be seen on one of the "Charity Boards" in the belltower. In the Parish Registers the occupation of all the Kellners is given as "Musician". George Kellner is described in the Registers (at the baptism of his son, George Desborough Kellner) as "Musician to His Majesty" and he is elsewhere described as "Oboe player in Queen Charlotte's Private Band". The Kellner who achieved most fame in his lifetime was Ernest Augustus (1792 - 1839). At the age of 5 he played a Handel concerto "before the King and his family". At 13 he became a midshipman on HMS PLOVER, but when his second ship, HMS ACASTA, was ordered to the West Indies, his parents got him out of the Navy. He studied music in Bath and sang in the theatre there. He then toured with the famous tenor, Charles Incledon. In 1813-1814 he gave concerts in London and toured Europe. When he died ("of a decline") he had over 100 compositions to his credit.

Mary Ann Elizabeth's grave is on the right of the path leading to the Bridle Gate.

Landlord of the Star and Garter, he died in May 1895 at the age of 58. A huge crowd attended his funeral, at Clewer, on May 18^th. McCloskie was a Councillor, a member of the Windsor Fire Brigade, and a prominent member of the Licensed Victuallers' Protection Association. The members of the last named organisation paid for his gravestone. The funeral procession was headed by the Windsor Fire Brigade under Captain Dyson, followed by a detachment of the Eton Fire Brigade under Captain Dugdale. On the route from the Star and Garter to the Churchyard "the blinds of almost every house were drawn and nearly every shop exhibited mourning shutters". Members of Windsor Corporation, including the Mayor, Mr H Webber, met the cortege at the Lychgate, Representatives of Messrs Nevile Reid and Co (brewers) were present, as also were representatives of Windsor & Eton Football Club, Windsor Police, and the Royal Horse Guards. The service was read by the Reverend J Ellison (Vicar of Windsor), "this being his first and melancholy duty as Chaplain to the Corporation".

Oswald McCloskie, John William's son, was killed in 1896 at age of 23. After his father's death, he had gone out to Johannesburg "to work in the mines". He then "joined the movement promoted by the Reform Leaders" and volunteered his services to go to the Front to fight against the Matabele. He was killed while fighting with Colonel Plummer's relief column.

The McCloskie grave is near to the Churchyard wall on the Clewer Court Road side, to the west of the centre path.

The graves of many ladies who shared the surname MAGDALEN are scattered all over Clewer Churchyard. Some may be seen on either side of the path near the Bridle Gate. Visitors are puzzled by the fact that the "family" appeared to have no male members. The Magdalens, in fact, were the women who benefited from the rescue work of Canon T T Carter and the House of Mercy. If, after they had been "rescued" - some of them through the agency of Gladstone, in London - they showed signs of wishing to settle to a changed life, they remained on at the Convent and took the name "Magdalen" in reference to the penitent woman in the Gospels.

One Magdalen gravestone, which was broken, has been repaired and installed in the Clewer History Museum.

Charles Newman, who was Landlord of the Royal Adelaide Hotel, Windsor, and a Churchwarden of Holy Trinity Church, committed suicide on November 10^th 1868. He cut his throat with a pruning knife which he had been using for peeling oranges. The occurrence "aroused much excitement" in the town. Newman, who was 39, had worked for the Brewery and Banking firm of Nevile Reid & Co for nearly twenty years before taking over the Adelaide. He was "a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and a strong supporter of the Conservative cause".

On the day of his death he was "just recovering from a deranged liver and nervous excitement" when a letter arrived with a dishonoured cheque that had been paid to him. "This occasioned a relapse and at 11 o'clock at night he destroyed himself in a dreadful manner".

An inquest was held at the Adelaide. Mr A H Marlin was the Coroner and Mr Alfred Williams was Foreman of the Jury. Mr John Cleave, Commission Agent, described how he had been in the Coffee Room of the Adelaide, with Mr Edginton Junr and Mr Chaney on the night of the tragedy. Mrs Newman entered in a distracted state and begged them to go upstairs to Mr Newman. They found him on the floor, which was covered in blood. Mr Newman muttered "They've threatened to send for the Police" and these were his last words. Dr Fairbank and Dr Bower had both attended him. Mr Henry Eschker of Denton Place said he had shared a bottle of claret with Newman on the day of his death. He had been very low-spirited. Then the letter with the dishonoured cheque arrived. Newman said "Here's a pretty thing - to lend a man money and have a cheque returned dishonoured." To rouse Newman's spirits Eschker suggested a game of cribbage, but after three games, Newman threw down his cards and said "I shall play no more". Dr Bower gave evidence that Newman had a deranged liver and stomach caused "by excessive free living". The wound in Newman's neck was sufficient to cause death. "I have no doubt"