George Carey (c. 1541 – 1616)
Sir George Carey (or Cary)
He should not be confused with his near namesake and second cousin
Origins
He was the eldest son and heir of Thomas Cary (died 1567) lord of the manor of Cockington, by his wife Mary Southcott, a daughter of John Southcott of Indio, Bovey Tracey, Devon, who was a clerk of the peace.[4] Thomas Cary's Easter Sepulchre type monument survives in St Saviour's Church, Tor Mohun. Thomas Cary was the second son of Robert Cary (died 1540), lord of the manor of Clovelly in Devon.[citation needed]
Career
After education at the
In 1601, Cary was responsible for the introduction of a newly debased Irish coinage and was accused in the Exchequer of Pleas of enriching himself in the process. Although the case was prolonged for several years nothing was ultimately proven, which may explain the words free from all filthy fraud that are inscribed on Isaac Oliver's miniature portrait of him (illustrated above).[1]
Marriages and children
Cary married twice:
Firstly in about 1561, to Wilmota Giffard (1540/1–1581),
- Thomas Cary, died childless;
- Sir George Cary, killed in the Irish Wars and stated by Risdon (died 1640) to have been "a great commander in the wars".[9] He predeceased his father and died childless;
- Jana Cary, died childless;
- Anna Cary, first wife of Sir Richard Edgcumbe (1571–1639) of Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall, MP for Grampound and Bossiney.[10] She also died childless.
Secondly Cary married Lettice Rich, a daughter of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick (1559–1619),[11] they had no children; she remarried to Sir Arthur Lake, MP.[4]
Succession
As his own children all died without issue, his heir to Cockington was his nephew George Cary,[12] the fifth son of his younger brother John Cary of Dudley, Staffordshire, and husband of Elizabeth Seymour, a daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet (died 1613), of Berry Pomeroy in Devon, grandson of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector[13] and uncle of King Edward VI.
Quartered arms
The arms of Sir George Cary, of four quarters, as displayed on the monumental brass to his first wife and on his father's monument, are as follows:[citation needed]
- 1st: Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field (Cary, with a crescent for the difference of a second son);
- 2nd: Or, three piles in point azure (Bryan of Tor Bryan, Devon, for Jane de Bryan, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Guy de Bryan (died 1396) of Tor Bryan, Devon, wife of Sir John Cary;[14]
- 3rd: Gules, a fess between three crescents argent (Holleway of Holway in North Lew, for Margaret Holleway, daughter and heiress of Robert Holleway, wife of Sir John Cary (d.1395) (son of Margaret de Bryan), Chief Baron of the Exchequer);[15]
- 4th: Azure, a chevron argent between three pears pendant or (de Orchard), Sir Philip Cary (died 1437) of Cockington (great-grandfather of Thomas Cary (died 1567) married Christiana Orchard, daughter and heiress of William Orchard of Orchard in Somerset.
Notes
References
- ^ a b ODNB, see last two paragraphs under Carew, George, earl of Totnes.
- ^ a b c History of Parliament CAREY, George (c. 1541-1616), of Cockington, Devon.
- ^ Both were descended from Nicholas Carew "Baron Carew" (d.1470), of Mohuns Ottery in Devon, Sir George Cary via his paternal grandmother Jane Carew (Vivian, pp.135, 150-1)
- ^ a b c Vivian, p.151
- ^ Date of birth per Vivian, p. 404, date of death per inscription on her brass in Tor Mohun Church
- ^ Vivian, p. 404, pedigree of Giffard; Pole, p. 304; Risdon p. 244; Pevsner, p. 127
- ^ Vivian, p. 123, note 5
- ^ Source (with corrections): Fairfax Harrison (of Belvoir House, Fauquier County, Virginia), The Devon Carys, 2 vols., New York, 1920, vol.1, p.198, note 2.
- ^ Risdon, Tristram (died 1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.149
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian[permanent dead link], Exeter, 1887, p.142
- ^ "Warwick, Earl of (E, 1618 - 1759)". Cracroft's Peerage. Heraldic Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
- ^ Pole, p. 279
- ^ Vivian, p. 703, pedigree of Seymour
- ^ Pole, p.473; Vivian, p.150
- ^ Pole, p.488
Sources
- 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.
- Pole, Sir William (died 1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791.
- Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620. Exeter, 1895.
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