 Edward Carson was the youngest child of Lord Carson's five children (born when his father was 66), and he was the only child of his father's second wife Lucy Frewen.Carson married Heather, daughter of Frank Arthur Sclater, O.B.E., M.C., of Milford, Surrey, in 1943; their son, Edward Rory Carson, married Araminta, daughter of Sir John James MacDonald Horlick, 5th Baronet, in 1975.Edward Carson was educated at Eton College – as was his son (a barrister who lives in Henley-upon-Thames) and as were two of his grandsons – and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.