Richard Carew (antiquary)

For other people with the same name, see Richard Carew (disambiguation).

Richard Carew (17 July 1555, East Antony, Cornwall, England  6 November 1620) was a Cornish translator and antiquary.

Life

A county gentleman of Cornwall, the eldest son of Thomas Carew, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he was a contemporary of Sir Philip Sidney and William Camden, and then at the Middle Temple. He made a translation of the first five cantos of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1594), which was more correct than that of Edward Fairfax. He also translated Juan de la Huarte's Examen de Ingenios, basing his translation on Camillo Camilli's Italian version.[1] (This book is the first systematic attempt to relate physiology with psychology, though based on the medicine of Galen. )

Carew was a member of the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries, and is particularly known for his Survey of Cornwall (1602; 1603 N.S.), the second English county history to appear in print. Later editions were published in 1723, 1769 and 1811, and Davies Gilbert published an index in his Cornwall, vol. 4, pp. 381–92. He also published an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue (1605). [2]

Carew served as High Sheriff of Cornwall (1583 and 1586), and as MP for Saltash in 1584. He was married to Juliana Arundell, the eldest daughter of Sir John Arundell of Trerice; their son Richard Carew was created a baronet in 1641 (see Carew baronets).[3]

Carew died on 6 November 1620 and was buried in Antony church on 7 November.[4]

Selected publications

Notes

  1. Courtney 1887.
  2. Chisholm 1911.
  3. "Richard CAREW". Tudor Place. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  4. Carew & Halliday 1969, pp. 68-69.

References

Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Earl of Bedford
Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall
jointly with Sir Francis Godolphin,
Sir William Mohun,
and Peter Edgcumbe

1586–1587
Succeeded by
Sir Walter Raleigh
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