Richard Carter (land agent)

Richard Carter was a land agent and surveyor in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. In 1846 he introduced Thomas Archer Hirst and John Tyndall, who both worked for him and later became members of the X Club.

References

Roy M. MacLeod (1970) "The X-Club: a Social Network of Science in Late-Victorian England," Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 24, No. 2. (Apr. 1970), pp. 305–322.