Roger Carew

Roger Carew (* after 1528; † December 14, 1590 in Brightlingsea ) was an English politician who was once elected as a member of the House of Commons .

origin

Roger Carew came from a branch of the Carew family , who owned several estates in the 16th century, especially in south-west England, but were divided into several branches. Its exact origin cannot be determined, as members of the different branches of the family often had the same names. Probably Roger Carew was the second or third son of Sir Wymond Carew and his wife Martha Denny from Antony . That would have made Thomas Carew his older brother.

Life

Roger Carew was one of the first students to study at the newly established Trinity College in Cambridge from 1546 . In 1551 he received a legal education at Gray's Inn in London. After graduating, Carew went to study abroad with his alleged younger brother Matthew Carew . In April 1554 they were in Padua , where they met Sir Thomas Hoby and Thomas Wroth . Roger Carew did not return to England until 1559, while his brother continued to study abroad. He took over the office of tax collector in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire at the end of 1559, which he received again in March 1565. His salary was £ 30 a year, plus 1% of the taxpayers' money.

Through his first marriage to Alice Stanford, Carew acquired the estate of Monken Hadley in Middlesex after 1558 , some of which was also in Hertfordshire . Therefore he served as justice of the peace in both counties from around 1561 . Since he lived on the northern edge of Middlesex, he did not take any duties in the southern part of the county, which led to complaints in 1564. Probably through the influence of Robert Wroth , whose father he had met in Padua, Carew was elected in 1563 as a member of Parliament for the Borough of St Albans . In 1565 he became one of the first governors of the Highgate School . In early 1566, Carew was a captain in command of 50 soldiers in Berwick . On March 8th he was appointed courier who brought letters from Queen Elizabeth I of England to the Scottish government. A week later he returned with the Scots reply which he gave to the Earl of Bedford . Before March 1572, Carew resigned as an officer, whereupon he received a daily pension of two shillings . A little later he received a further pension of three shillings and four pence a day from the queen, which was apparently paid until his death. In addition he received in May 1564 Rokeles at Watton in Norfolk as a fief. After the death of his first wife, Hadley fell to her heirs. Instead, in 1567, Carew acquired the Brightlingsea estate in Essex , which apparently became his primary residence. In the elections of 1571 Carew no longer ran, and after that he apparently did not take any other offices.

Marriage and offspring

In her first marriage, Carew had married Alice, the widow of Sir William Stanford († 1558) and daughter of John Palmer from Middlesex. The marriage remained childless. After the death of his first wife, Carew had married Margaret after November 1573, with whom he had two sons and a daughter:

• Anthony
• Matthew
• Joyce

Since his eldest son was only five when he died, his widow took over the management of his estates in Norfolk and Essex.

Web links

• NM Fuidge: CAREW, Roger (d.1590), of Hadley, Mdx., Brightlingsea, Essex and Watton, Norf. (History of Parliament Online, Ref Volumes: 1558–1603)