George Carew | |
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| Died | 13 November 1612 |
| Nationality | English |
| Other names | Earl of Totnes |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
Sir George Carew (died 13 November 1612) was an English diplomat, historian and Member of Parliament. [1]
He was the second son of Thomas Carew of Antony and brother of Richard Carew. He was educated at Oxford and entered the Middle Temple before travelling abroad. At the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth I, who conferred on him the honour of a knighthood, he was appointed secretary to Sir Christopher Hatton. Later, having been promoted to a Mastership in Chancery, he was sent as ambassador to the King of Poland. [2]
He sat in Parliament for St. Germans in 1584, for Saltash in 1586, 1588, 1593, and for St. Germans in 1597 and 1601.
The honour of knighthood was conferred upon him at the Palace of Whitehall on 23 July 1603. [3] According to John Chamberlain, "Mr Carew, a master in chancery" rode north to Edinburgh to meet James VI and I in March 1603 at the Union of the Crowns, in an unsuccessful attempt to gain an office. He rode to Scotland again in June 1603 to meet Anne of Denmark, but did not get his desired "special place about her". [4]
He married Thomazine Carew, the daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin and his first wife Margaret Killigrew. [3] They had two sons and three daughters, including: [1]
Thomazine, or Thomasine, Lady Carew, was a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Denmark. [8] The queen gave her gifts of clothes she had worn, including in February 1610 at Whitehall Palace, a black satin gown in a plain bias cut, and another black gown with blue "galloons" or lace strips. [9]
George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, a distant relation of her husband, was the queen's receiver-general and vice-chamberlain, which be a source of confusion. [10]
Lady Carew was influential by her proximity to Anne of Denmark, and was able to forward her husband's plans. Thomas Edmondes wrote that she had intervened in his diplomatic appointments against his wishes, but the Lord Treasurer Robert Cecil's decision had prevailed. [11] She walked in the procession at Anne of Denmark's funeral in 1619 as a lady of the Privy Chamber. [12]
During the reign of James I he was employed in negotiations with Scotland and for several years was ambassador to the court of France. On his return, he wrote a Relation of the State of France, written in the classical style of the Elizabethan age and featuring sketches of the leading persons at the court of Henry IV. It appears as an appendix to Thomas Birch's Historical View of the Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617, [2] 1749. [note 1] The work A Relation of the State of Polonia , produced between 1598 and 1603, used to be attributed to Carew, but in 2014 Sobecki definitively identified John Peyton as the author and the coronation of James VI and I in 1603 as the date of completion. [13] Sobecki's identification is based on Peyton's letters about this work and the finding of a second copy of A Relation of the State of Polonia written in Peyton's hand and dated and signed by Peyton himself.
Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a Scottish nobleman who through their paternal lines was a second cousin of King James VI of Scotland and I of England. He was involved in the Plantation of Ulster in Ireland and the colonization of Maine in New England. Richmond's Island and Cape Richmond as well as Richmond, Maine, are named after him. His magnificent monument with effigies survives in Westminster Abbey.
George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar, KG, PC was, in the last decade of his life, the most prominent and most influential Scotsman in England. His work lay in the King's Household and in the control of the State Affairs of Scotland and he was the King's chief Scottish advisor. With the full backing and trust of King James he travelled regularly from London to Edinburgh via Berwick-upon-Tweed.
George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, known as Sir George Carew between 1586 and 1605 and as The Lord Carew between 1605 and 1626, served under Elizabeth I during the Tudor conquest of Ireland and was appointed President of Munster. He was an authority on heraldry and the author of Carew's Scroll of Arms 1588, Collected from Churches in Devonshire etc., with Additions from Joseph Holland's Collection of Arms 1579.
Sir Edmond Bell Of Castle Acre and Beaupre Hall, Norfolk.. He was an MP of Aldeburgh, Justice of the Peace for Norfolk c. 1599, Knighted 1603.
Margaret Stuart, Scottish aristocrat and courtier in England. She served as lady-in-waiting to the queen consort of England, Anne of Denmark. She was the daughter of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, and Elizabeth Stuart, 2nd Countess of Moray. The sailor and patron of Ben Jonson, Sir Frances Stuart was her brother.
John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon was an English peer, politician and Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Sir Roger Aston of Cranford, Middlesex, was an English courtier and favourite of James VI of Scotland.
John Peyton (1579–1635), of Wells, Norfolk, was an English politician. He was the son of Sir John Peyton (1544–1630), Governor of Jersey and Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare, was a courtier and governess of Princess Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, and a member of the House of Howard.
Sir Edward Zouch of Woking was a courtier to English kings James and Charles I, a masque actor, and Knight Marshal of the King's Household.
Bridget Annesley was a courtier to Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI and I.
Magdalen Wood was an English courtier and diplomatic messenger.
Mary Woodhouse, Lady Killigrew, musician and correspondent of Constantijn Huygens, was the daughter of Henry Woodhouse (MP) of Hickling and Waxham, and Anne Bacon, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon. She may have been the "Woodhouse" appointed Maid of Honour to Anne of Denmark in December 1603.
Dorothy Silking, was a Danish courtier, one of the chamberers in the household of Anne of Denmark.
Abraham Harderet, goldsmith and jeweller to Elizabeth I of England and Anne of Denmark
Dr Martin Schöner or Schönerus, physician to James VI and I and Anne of Denmark.
George Nicholson or Nicolson, was an English diplomat in Scotland.
Prince Henry's Welcome at Winchester was a masque produced by Anne of Denmark and performed in 1603 at Winchester on a day between 11 and 17 October.
Thomazine or Thomasina or Thomasine Carew was an English courtier.
The jewels of Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), wife of James VI and I and queen consort of Scotland and England, are known from accounts and inventories, and their depiction in portraits by artists including Paul van Somer. A few pieces survive. Some modern historians prefer the name "Anna" to "Anne", following the spelling of numerous examples of her signature.
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