Thomas Carew (politician, around 1702)
Thomas Carew (* around 1702; † March 13, 1766 ) was a British politician who was elected twice as a member of the House of Commons . He had the mansion of Crowcombe Court rebuilt.
Origin and education
Thomas Carew came from the Carew family , who had been one of the leading gentry families of south-west England since the late Middle Ages. The family had split into several lines. Thomas Carew was the eldest son of Thomas Carew of Camerton , Somerset and his wife Elizabeth Sanford. His father died in 1719, whereupon he inherited his property. Carew learned from 1720 law at the Middle Temple in London, where he was subsequently approved as a barrister in 1737 .
Member of the House of Commons
Carew was considered an eccentric Tory and a follower of the Jacobites . On February 9, 1739, he was elected as a member of Parliament for the Borough of Minehead , Somerset, and re-elected in 1741 as a lobbyist for the Luttrell family . In the House of Commons he gave numerous speeches and brought a number of legislative proposals, but when he was Tory among the Whig -Regierungen little influence. In the 1747 general election, Carew was expected to run either as Knight of the Shire for Somerset or again for Minehead, but ultimately he did not run. Seriously ill as early as 1741, Carew was increasingly ill from 1750. He was no longer politically active and did not take any public offices. In 1755 he anonymously published An Historical Account of the Rights of Elections , a collection of the reports of the electoral committees up to 1727.
New construction of Crowcombe Court
In 1724 Carew had the old mansion of Crowcombe Court, which his ancestor Thomas Carew († 1604) had acquired by marriage in 1568, demolished. Instead, he had a stately new mansion built, which was completed in 1739. Carew had to sell six of his estates, including the old family home of Camerton Court , to raise the estimated £ 6000 construction costs . According to his distant cousin's will, Coventry Carew , Carew inherited Antony House in Cornwall before 1763 after Coventry Carew's widow died.
Family and offspring
Carew's first marriage was Mary Drewe, a daughter of Francis Drewe of Grange, Broadhembury in Devon. With her he had three daughters. His wife died on May 25, 1738. In his second marriage on February 10, 1743, he married Mary Horne, a sister of John Horne, who later became governor of Bombay . The marriage remained childless. Since Carew died without male descendants, his daughter Elizabeth and her husband James Bernard († 1805) inherited Crowcombe. According to the Coventry Carew will, Antony House fell to the next male Carew, Thomas Carew's nephew John Carew († 1771).
Works
- An Historical Account of the Rights of Elections of the several Counties, Cities and Boroughs of Great Britain: collected from Public Records, and the Journals of Parliament to the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four. By a late Member of Parliament (T. Carew). John Nourse, London 1755
Web links
- Shirley Matthews: CAREW, Thomas (1702-66), of Crowcombe, no. Minehead, Som. (History of Parliament Online, Ref Volumes: 1715–1754)
Individual evidence
- ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 35
- ↑ Historic England: Crowcombe Court. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Carew, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1702 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1766 |