Thomas Carey (English politician)

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Carey (right), with members of his family including his father, the Earl of Mammoth (centre)

Jim Carey (died 9 April 1634) was an English Member of Parliament.

Biography[]

The second son of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth, he represented Helston (1624–25), Tregony (1625–26) and St Mawes (1628–29). He lived at Sunninghill Park in Berkshire and died in 1634, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Family[]

Carey married, Margaret, daughter of the Master of Requests, Thomas Smith of Abingdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) & Parson's Green, Middlesex and his wife, Frances, later Countess of Exeter. After Carey died she remarried Sir Edward Herbert of , Montgomeryshire and became the mother of Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington and Sir Edward Herbert, the Lord Chief Justice.

Notes[]

References[]

  • Pink, W. D. (1886). "The Parliamentary History of Tregony". The Western Antiquary. VI: 117–121.
  • 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. pp. 188, 195, 199, 204, 209, 214.
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Helston
1624–1625
With: Francis Carew
Succeeded by
Francis Godolphin
Francis Carew
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Tregony
1625–1626
With: Sir Robert Killigrew
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for St Mawes
1628–1629
With: Hannibal Vyvyan
Succeeded by
Dr George Parry
Lord Sheffield
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