Afterwards Earl of Granville, one of the most brilliant scholars and wits as well as one of the foremost statesmen of last century. He was now one of the chosen circle of Swift's friends, and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at the time of the Drapier Letters. As colleague of Walpole, he was compelled to carry out a policy adverse to Swift. But he was at the same time one of Walpole's most inveterate enemies, and the bond of sympathy was never broken between him and Swift, who made Carteret the subject of some of his most complimentary poems.