{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Russell Lant Carpenter | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1816|12|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Bristol]], Somerset, England, United Kingdom | death_date = {{Death date and age|1892|17 December 1816}} | death_place = England | body_discovered = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | other_names = | known_for = [[Minister (Christianity)|Minister]], [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] | education = | alma_mater = | employer = | occupation = | years_active = 1816&ndash;1892 | height = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | opponents = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = [[Lant Carpenter]], Anna Penn | relatives = [[William Benjamin Carpenter]] (brother)<br /> [[Philip Pearsall Carpenter]] (brother) <br />[[Mary Carpenter]] (sister) | callsign = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Russell Lant Carpenter''' (17 December 1816 – 1892), a [[Unitarianism|Unitarian minister]] who carried on the works of his father, Dr. [[Lant Carpenter]] and wrote his biography. He was a brother of the social reformer [[Mary Carpenter]].

Carpenter was born in 1816 in Kidderminster, Worcester, England and was christened in Devonshire, England. He died in 1892.<ref>See British National Record Archives: [https://archive.today/20120805064506/http://www.hmc.gov.uk/NRA/searches/PIdocs.asp?P=44474] Historical Manuscripts Commission, UK National Register of Archives, Russell Lant Carpenter, (1816–1892) Unitarian minister, corresp and papers, Oxford University: Harris Manchester College Library, Reference : MSS [R] L Carpenter, see Catalogue of manuscripts in Harris Manchester College Oxford, 1998.</ref>

==Books== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=cS52bX-Jzx0C&dq=memoirs%20of%20Lant%20Carpenter&pg=PR1 ''Memoirs of the Life of Rev. Lant Carpenter, LL.D.''], by Carpenter, Russell Lant, B.A. (1842) Published: Green, Newgate Street, London, England and Philip and Evans, Calre Street, Bristol, England. Online at: [https://books.google.com/books GoogleBooks]. * [https://archive.org/stream/memoirofrevlantc00carpuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''Memoir of the Rev. Lant Carpenter, LL.D.''] by Carpenter, Russell Lant, B.A. (1875) and abridged by his sister, [[Mary Carpenter]]. Published by: E. T. Whitfield, 178 Strand, W. C., London, England. Printed by: Arrowsmith Printer, Quay Street, Bristol, England.

==See also== {{Portal| Biography }} *[[John Barling]]

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