 In his three first-class matches, he failed to score any runs in four batting innings, With the ball, he took just a single wicket which came at an overall cost of 155.00.Carpenter is the nephew of the historian David Carpenter and the grandson of the ecclesiastical historian and former Dean of Westminster Abbey Edward Carpenter.His maternal great-great-great-uncle was Sir Henry Evan Murchison James, a member of the Indian Civil Service who wrote about his travels in Manchuria.