Fellow of the Royal Society,Gentelman of the Kings Chamber,1670
1664-5 Feb. 10. Commission of Philipp CARTERETT as Governour of New Jersey. [2]
Sir Philip Carteret Kt FRS (1641–1672), was son of Sir George Carteret.
Philip was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on the 15th February 1665.
He married Jemima Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, in an arranged marriage on 31 July 1665. Samuel Pepys had a hand in the marriage and wrote of it at some length in his diary. Jemima had only known of Philip some fourteen days before their marriage. It is noted that Jemima failed to arrive in time for the ceremony at the church.
Philip was father of four children, including George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret.
Knighted in 1667, he became Gentleman of the Kings Chamber in 1670.
Philip died along with his father-in-law the Earl of Sandwich when their ship, the Prince Royal, was grappeled by a Dutch fire ship in the Battle of Solebay.
On 21 November 1699 Edward Carteret, 3rd son of Sir Philip (who was killed at the battle of Sole Bay in 1672) and his wife Lady Jemima Montagu daughter of the 1st Earl of Sandwich,
married Lady Bridget Sudbury, alias Clutterbuck, daughter of Sir Thomas Exton, in the Abbey. Their eldest son George Carteret was buried in the nave on 14 November 1718. He died aged 17 while attending Westminster School.

Jemima had known of Phillip de Carteret,some fourteen days only before the arranged marriage,to wit Samuel Pepys had a hand in,and is writen of at some length in his diary,but failed to arrive in time for the ceremony at the church.But was there to see the couple to their bed,and in the morning to see the red faces on arising.a dowery of some £5000 and £800 per annaum.
John Wright, father of Dr. Laurence Wright, owned the land and mansion at Wrights Bridge, also lands at Noak Hill and Maylands Farm. He, with Peter Humble, was challenged by James I to prove title to certain lands in Havering-atte-Bower created by encroachments and assarts - this may have been land of Havering Plain, Noak Hill, (see Manor of Gooshays). Dr. Laurence Bright (1590-1657) was an eminent surgeon during the Commonwealth, physician to Oliver Cromwell and the Charterhouse, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Physicians, After he died in 1657, his son and heir, Henry, was created a baronet in 1658 by Cromwell, and married Anne, daughter of Lord Crewe of Stone, the year after his father's death. Sir Henry died in 1663 at the age of 27 years. His young son, Henry, inherited Dagnams and the estates. During the minority of her son, Lady Anne Wright acted as trustee, living at Dagnams with her other child, Anne.

It was during the year of the Plague, in 1665, that Samuel Pepys visited Dagnams to arrange the marriage of Lady Jeminah, daughter of Lord Sandwich, to Phillip the son of Sir George Carteret, treasurer to the Navy. Lady Jeminah was niece to Lady Anne Wright and sister-in-law to Lord Sandwich, who was Vice-Admiral of the fleet and to whom Pepys was secretary. Pepys, an inveterate snob, was only too happy to act as intermediary, because of the great honour of being invited to stay at Dagnams and the possible influence the two great aristocratic families could bring to bear on his future career at the Admiralty, if the marriage settlement was successfully negotiated. During the negotiations, Pepys visited Dagnams several times, and his visits were recorded in his diary:

"July 15th [1665]. Mr. Carteret and I to the ferry-place at Greenwich, and there staid an hour, crossing the water to and again to get our coach and horses over; and by and by set out, and so toward Dagenhams. But L—d! what silly discourse we had as to love matters, he being the most awkward man ever I met with in my life as to that business. Thither we come, and by that time it began to be dark, and were kindly received by Lady Wright and my Lord Crewe…"



The marriage between the young couple was finalised 31st July, l665. Afterwards, Pepys was regarded highly by Lord Sandwich, the Carterets and Lady Wright, and to his intense pleasure he was congratulated by King Charles and his brother James, Duke of York,