Harry Carter (September 14, 1879 – July 22, 1952) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 84 films between 1914 and 1933. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Harry Carter (27 March 1901 – 10 March 1982) was an English typographer and writer. He was a well-known historian of type. He was the father of typographer Matthew Carter.
Biography
Harry Graham Carter studied at the progressive Bedales School (where he was a friend of John Rothenstein), and at Queen's College, Oxford "where he became competent in French, German, Spanish, and Russian". (He would later learn Arabic, and design a Hebrew font.) Though he was studying law, Carter became interested in typography, and bought a printing press.
His first work with type came in 1928 and 1929 as an apprentice at the Monotype Corporation. At this time he formed friendships with Jan van Krimpen, Stanley Morison, Francis Meynell, and Oliver and Herbert Simon (cousins of his school-friend, John Rothenstein). He became involved the Curwen Press, and after leaving the Monotype Corporation worked briefly at the Kynoch Press in Birmingham. In 1931 he and Herbert Simon published Printing Explained.
Harry Charles Carter (5 May 1874 – 25 July 1952) was an Australian politician.
He was born at Attleborough, Norfolk, England, to farming bailiff Edward Carter and Dinah Louise, née Woor. He was educated locally and emigrated to Sydney in 1892, working as a farm hand near Singleton and as a bookkeeper near Quirindi. From 1895 he ran his own property, Yarraman North near Quirindi, which he purchased outright in 1909. On 25 April 1900 he married Elsie Maude Tate, with whom he had four children. He served on Tamarang Shire Council from 1914 to 1928, and later expanded his holdings to include an additional property called Woorak. In 1927 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Country Party member for Liverpool Plains, serving until his retirement in 1941. Carter died at Willoughby in 1952.