Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet

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Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet (* before December 26, 1686 or February 6, 1687, † March 18, 1727 ) was a British nobleman and politician who was elected four times as a member of the House of Commons .

Origin and education

Nicholas Carew came from the family Carew of Beddington , one of the most respected families of the gentry of Surrey . He was the second, but eldest surviving son of Sir Francis Carew and his wife Anne Boteler , where he was either baptized on December 26, 1686, but according to other sources, was not born until February 6, 1687. His father took over the inheritance of Nicholas' grandfather Nicholas Carew in 1688 , but died himself in 1689. Nicholas Carew studied in 1703 at St Catharine's College , Cambridge.

Life

During Carew's minority, his uncle Nicholas Carew had run unsuccessfully for various constituencies of Surrey and even Cornwall in the general election between 1695 and 1702. The younger Nicholas Carew, however, was elected unchallenged as a member of parliament on December 13, 1708 in a by-election for the Borough Haslemere in Surrey. In the House of Commons he was initially inconspicuous, but politically he was clearly attributed to the Whigs . Although he gave the voters in Haslemere an additional 100 guineas a week before the next general election in October 1710 , Sir John Clerke and Theophilus Oglethorpe received the most votes in the vote. Since Oglethorpe had received 35 votes and Carew only 32 votes, Carew requested a review of the election. It was found that almost half of the votes Carew received were invalid. On December 5, 1710, Carew tried to challenge the election at the parliamentary electoral committee, but his request was never dealt with. As a result, Carew did not run again in the next election in August 1713. In a by-election, however, he was re-elected for Haslemere on March 17, 1714, after Thomas Onslow had not accepted the election for Haslemere, but for Bletchingley . As Whig, Carew was present at St James's Palace on August 1, 1714 , when Elector George of Hanover was proclaimed the new King of Great Britain. The new king thanked him by giving Carew the hereditary title of Baronet , of Beddington in the County of Surrey on January 11, 1715 . In the general election in February 1715, Carew was re-elected as a member of parliament for Haslemere. In the House of Commons he was now a supporter of the government. Since the Onslow family could not make a candidate for Surrey in the next general election in 1722, Carew was elected as Knight of the Shire .

Beddington Place , the family home , had been neglected while he was a minor . Between 1707 and 1720 Carew had the manor house renovated and partially rebuilt, and he had the surrounding park redesigned.

Family and offspring

On February 2, 1709 Carew had married Elizabeth Hackett († 1740), a daughter of Nicholas Hackett from North Crawley in Buckinghamshire . She brought a dowry of £ 2000 into the marriage. With her he had two sons and two daughters, including his heir Sir Nicholas Hackett Carew, 2nd Baronet , on whose death in 1762 the title of nobility expired.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Parliament Online: CAREW, Nicholas (1686-1727), of Beddington, Surr. and Dover Street, Piccadilly, London. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ History of Parliament Online: CAREW, Sir Nicholas, 1st Bt. (1687-1727), of Beddington, no. Croydon, Surr. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Historic England: Dovecote, Beddington Park. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Carew, Nicholas, 1st Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carew, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH before December 26, 1686 or February 6, 1687
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1727