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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOTNES, See also:GEORGE See also:CAREW, or See also:CAREY, See also:EARL OF (1555-1629)  , See also:English politician and writer, son of Dr See also:George See also:Carew, See also:dean of See also:Windsor, a member of a well-known See also:Devonshire See also:family, and See also:Anne, daughter of See also:Sir See also:Nicholas See also:Harvey, was See also:born on the 29th of May 1555,1 and was educated at Broadgates See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1588 . He distinguished himself on the See also:field on several occasions and filled important military commands in See also:Ireland . In 1584 he was appointed See also:gentleman-pensioner to See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, whose favour he gained . In 1586 he was knighted in Ireland . Refusing the See also:embassy to See also:France, Sir George Carew was made See also:master of the See also:ordnance in Ireland in 1588, in 1590 Irish privy councillor; and in 1592 See also:lieutenant-See also:general of the ordnance in See also:England, in which capacity he accompanied See also:Essex in the expedition to See also:Cadiz in 1596 and to ' According to his own statement, Archaeologia, xii . 401 . In the introduction, however, to the See also:Calendar of Carew See also:MSS. the date of his See also:birth is given as 1558, and his See also:admission into Broadgates Hall in 1572, aged 15 . In the See also:preface to Carew's Letters to See also:Roe it is given as 1557 . See also:TOTNES` the See also:Azores in 1597 . In 1598 he attended Sir See also:Robert See also:Cecil, the See also:ambassador, to France . He was appointed treasurer at See also:war to Essex in Ireland in See also:March 1599, and on the latter's sudden departure in See also:September of the same See also:year, leaving the See also:island in disorder, Carew was appointed a See also:lord See also:justice, and in 1600 See also:president of See also:Munster, where his vigorous See also:measures enabled the new lord See also:deputy, Lord See also:Mountjoy, to suppress the See also:rebellion . He returned to England in 1603 and was well received by See also:James I., who appointed him See also:vice-See also:chamberlain to the queen the same year, master of the ordnance in 1608, and privy councillor in 1616; and on the See also:accession of See also:Charles I. he became treasurer to Queen Henrietta Maria in 1626 .

He sat for See also:

Hastings in the See also:parliament of 1604, and on the 4th of See also:June 1605 was created See also:Baron Carew of Clopton, being advanced to the earldom of Totnes on the 5th of See also:February 1626 . In 1610 he revisited Ireland to See also:report on the See also:state of the See also:country; and in 1618 pleaded in vain for his friend Sir See also:Walter See also:Raleigh . He died on the 27th of March 1629, leaving no issue . He married Joyce, daughter of See also:William Clopton, of Clopton in See also:Warwickshire . Besides his fame as president of Munster, where his See also:administration forms an important See also:chapter in Irish See also:history, Carew had a consider-able reputation as an See also:antiquary . He was the friend of See also:Camden, of See also:Cotton and of See also:Bodley . He made large collections of materials See also:relating to Irish history and pedigrees, which he See also:left to his secretary, Sir See also:Thomas See also:Stafford, reputed on scanty See also:evidence to be his natural son; while some portion has disappeared, 39 volumes after coming into See also:Laud's See also:possession are now at See also:Lambeth, and 4 volumes in the Bodleian Library . A calendar of the former is included in the State Papers See also:series edited by J . S . See also:Brewer and W . Bullen . His See also:correspondence from Munster with Sir Robert Cecil was edited in 1864 by Sir See also:John Maclean, for the Camden Society, and his letters to Sir Thomas Roe (1615-1617) in 1860 .

Other letters or papers are in the See also:

Record See also:Office; among the MSS. at the See also:British Museum and calendared in the Hist . MSS . Cons . Series, See also:Marquess of See also:Salisbury's MSS . Stafford published after Carew's See also:death Pacata See also:Hibernia, or the History of the See also:Late See also:Wars in Ireland (1633),, the authorship of which he ascribes in his preface to Carew, but which has been attributed to Stafford himself . This was reprinted in 1810 and re-edited in 1896 . A Fragment of the History of Ireland, a See also:translation from a See also:French version of an Irish See also:original, and See also:King See also:Richard II.... in Ireland from the French, both by Carew, are printed in Walter See also:Harris's Hibernica (1757) . According to See also:Wood, Carew contributed to the history of the reign of See also:Henry V. in See also:Speed's See also:Chronicle . His See also:opinion on the alarm of the See also:Spanish invasion in 1596 has also been printed . See also the See also:Life of Sir P . Carew, ed. by Sir J . Maclean (1857) .

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