Thomas Carey (English politician)

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

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

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 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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