Sir Philip Carteret Silvester (1777–1828) was a captain in the Royal Navy He was the son of Rear-admiral Philip Carteret, the circumnavigator, by his wife Mary Rachel, daughter of Sir , M.D., F.R.S. (d. 1789), a Frenchman by birth, a Dutchman by education, and physician to the army in the Low Countries, under the Duke of Cumberland, during the War of the Austrian Succession (cf. Munk, Coll. of Phys. ii. 178).