Thomas Carey (English politician)

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

Thomas 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. After Carey died she remarried Sir Edward Herbert of Aston, 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. onepage&q&f&#61, false 188, 195, 199, 204, 209, 214.
    Parliament of England
    Preceded by
    Sir Thomas Stafford
    William Noy
    Member of Parliament for Helston
    1624–1625
    With: Francis Carew
    Succeeded by
    Francis Godolphin
    Francis Carew
    Preceded by
    Sir Henry Carey
    Sebastian Goode
    Member of Parliament for Tregony
    1625–1626
    With: Sir Robert Killigrew
    Succeeded by
    Francis Rous
    Sir John Arundell
    Preceded by
    Sir Henry Carey
    William Carr
    Member of Parliament for St Mawes
    1628–1629
    With: Hannibal Vyvyan
    Succeeded by
    Dr George Parry
    Lord Sheffield


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