John Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of Tyrconnell GCH, FRS (16 December 1790 – 25 June 1853) was a British peer. He served with the North York Corps of Yeomanry.
Carpenter was the second son of Charles & Elizabeth (MacKenzie)Carpenter. His father Charles (3 January 1757 – 5 September 1803) was a navalofficer who married on 19 May 1785 the only daughter of ThomasMackenzie, Esq. His uncle was George Carpenter, 2nd Earl ofTyrconnell who died 15 April 1805, leaving the title to John's olderbrother George. When George diedon 20 December 1812, John inherited the title.
He married on 1 October 1817 Sarah Crowe (abt 1795 – 1868), the only childof Robert Crowe, Esq., of Kiplin, county York and Anne Buckle, his wife, whowas the daughter of Christopher Buckle, Esq., of Burgh, in Banstead.
In 1818, Sarah Crowe Carpenter inherited Kiplin Hallfrom her father and lived there until her death in 1868.
John and Sarah had only one child, a daughter named Elizabeth Anne Carpenterwho was born and who died on 19 February 1847.
Kiplin Hall passed to a cousin, Walter Cecil Talbot, second son of the Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl ofShrewsbury, who changed his surname to Carpenter as a condition ofthe will.
From 1887 to 1904 Admiral Walter Talbot now surnamedCarpenter lived at Kiplin Hall, near Scorton, Richmond, North Yorkshire,England.