John Carew, 3rd Baronet

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Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet (baptized November 6, 1635 - August 1, 1692 ) was an English nobleman and politician who was elected seven times to the House of Commons .

origin

John Carew came from the family Carew from Antony , a distinguished family of the gentry of Cornwall . He was the third, but eldest surviving son of Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet and his wife Jane Rolle. Richard Carew , whom he inherited in 1691, was one of his siblings .

Political activity

During the Commonwealth

Carew's father was arrested as a traitor during the English Civil War in 1643 and executed in London in December 1644 , inheriting Carew's estates in Cornwall and Devon and the title of Baronet , of Antony in the County of Cornwall. Carew was a moderate Presbyterian , but because of his youth, he played no part in the Civil War. During the Commonwealth he held no offices and was only commissioned in 1659 and in March 1660 to raise the Cornwall militia . Together with other members of the gentry, he met from December 27 to December 31, 1659 in Truro , where they finally published a proclamation calling for a freely elected parliament.

During the Stuart Restoration

In the general election in 1660 during the Stuart Restoration , Carew initially ran unsuccessfully in Borough Bodmin , but was eventually elected as Knight of the Shire for Cornwall. Although he was considered a friend of Lord Wharton , he remained reserved in the Convention Parliament . In the general election in 1661 he was elected as a deputy for Bodmin on May 16. During the Cavalier Parliament , which had now been in session for 18 years , he was again cautious because he was still friends with Wharton and was considered a Presbyterian from Cornwall who would not support the government. By 1679 he was represented on 27 committees, most of which dealt with local issues. From 1660 he served as Justice of the Peace and from 1682 as Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall. In the March 1679 election he was elected MP for Lostwithiel . In the so-called Exclusion Parliament he voted for the Exclusion Bill , whereupon he lost his offices as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant. In the general election of October 1679 and 1681 he was confirmed as a member of Parliament for Lostwithiel. It is unclear whether he ran in the general election in 1685. In any case, in 1688 he expressed doubts as to whether the test file should be kept. After the Glorious Revolution , he was presumably elected as a candidate for the Whigs as Knight of the Shire for Cornwall in 1689 , and he was again Justice of the Peace. As a member of 18 committees, he was much more active in the House of Commons than before. In the general election in 1690, however , the Tories put two promising candidates as Knight of the Shire for Cornwall, whereupon Carew did not run again for Cornwall and was instead elected as a member of Parliament for the Borough of Saltash . He continued to support the Whigs until his death.

Family and offspring

Carew had married Sarah Hungerford († 1671), a daughter of Anthony Hungerford of Farleigh Hungerford Castle , in his first marriage before 1664 , with her he had two sons, who however died early, and two daughters:

  • Jane († 1700) ∞ Jonathan Rasleigh
  • Rachel (1669–1705) ∞ Ambrose Manaton

After his first wife died in 1671, he married Elizabeth Norton , daughter of Richard Norton of Southwick , Hampshire , for a second time . With her he had two daughters. After the death of his second wife in 1679, he married Mary Morice , a daughter of William Morice, 1st Baronet from Werrington in Devon, in July 1681 . With her he had two sons and a daughter:

  • Richard Carew, 4th Baronet (1684–1703)
  • Gertrude Carew (1682-1736)
  1. ∞ Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet
  2. ∞ Coplestone Bamfylde, 3rd Baronet

Carew was buried in Antony on August 6, 1692. His underage sons were initially raised by his wife, who also left Antony. Should this die, his groomsmen Hugh Boscawen, Jonathan Rasleigh and Nicholas Morice should take over the education of his children and the administration of his property. His wife actually died in 1698. After his eldest son Richard died in 1703 at the age of 19, his youngest son William became his heir.

The life of his daughter Rachel from his first marriage is said to have inspired the writer Daphne du Maurier for her novel My Cousin Rachel .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 19
predecessor Office successor
Alexander Carew Baronet (of Antony)
1644-1692 		Richard Carew
personal data
SURNAME Carew, John, 3rd Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carew, Sir John, 3rd Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 6, 1635
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1692