Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet | |
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Member of Parliament for Mitchell | |
In office 1621-1622 | |
Member of Parliament for Cornwall | |
In office 1614 | |
Personal details | |
Born | ca. 1580 |
Died | 14 March 1643 (aged 62–63) |
Spouse(s) | Bridget Chudleigh Miss Rolle |
Children | 7+, including Alexander and John |
Parent |
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Relatives | John Carew (grandson) |
Education | Oxford University |
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Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet (ca. 1580 – 14 March 1643), of Antony in Cornwall, was a British writer and Member of Parliament.
Life
[edit]Carew was the eldest son of the antiquary Richard Carew (1555–1620). He was educated at Oxford, probably at Merton, and studied law at the Middle Temple. He also visited the courts of Poland, Sweden and France, the first two as part of an embassy led by his uncle and the last in attendance on the ambassador, Sir Henry Nevill. He entered Parliament in 1614 as member for Cornwall, and subsequently also represented Mitchell in 1621–2.[2]
Carew published several works, including a treatise written to prove that "a warming stone" was "useful and comfortable for the colds of aged and sick people". His most notable work, however, was the True and readie Way to learne the Latine Tongue, attested by three excellently learned and approved authours of three nations, of which he was the English author. This was not published until 1654, well after his death, and apparently only made its way into print on the misapprehension that it was his more distinguished father who had penned it.[2] The work argues for learning by translating back and forth, with a minimal amount of grammar teaching.
On 9 August 1641, Richard Carew was created a baronet. [2] He died less than two years later.
Family
[edit]He had married twice: first, during his father's lifetime, to Bridget Chudleigh, by whom he had one son, Alexander (who succeeded to the baronetcy), and four daughters. After her death he married again, to a Miss Rolle, and they had at least two other sons, John and Thomas. [2]
The Civil War divided the family, and proved particularly fateful for them, for two years after Sir Richard's death Sir Alexander was executed on Tower Hill for treason as a Royalist, while John as a loyal Parliamentarian sat on the court that condemned King Charles and was eventually hanged, drawn and quartered as a regicide at the Restoration.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]Courtney, William Prideaux (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
[edit]- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
- Dictionary of National Biography
- Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (2nd edition, London: John Russell Smith, 1844) [1]
- Vivian's Visitations of Cornwall (Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1887) [2]
- Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 1.
- 1580s births
- 1643 deaths
- Baronets in the Baronetage of England
- Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall
- People from Antony, Cornwall
- Writers from Cornwall
- 17th-century English writers
- 17th-century English male writers
- Carew family
- English MPs 1614
- English MPs 1621–1622
- Carew baronets