Richard Carew (antiquary)

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Richard Carew
British (English) School - Richard Carew (1555-1620), Aged 32, as High-Sherrif and Deputy-Lieutenant of Cornwall - 352348 - National Trust.jpg
Richard Carew, High Sheriff and Deputy-Lieutenant of Cornwall, in 1586
Member of Parliament for Saltash
In office
1584
Relatives Richard Carew (grandson)
John Carew (grandson)
Education Christ Church, Oxford
OccupationTranslator

Richard Carew (17 July 1555 – 6 November 1620) was a Cornish translator and antiquary. He is best known for his county history, Survey of Cornwall (1602). [1]

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Life

Carew belonged to a prominent gentry family, and was the eldest son of Thomas Carew: he was born on 17 July 1555 at East Antony, Cornwall. 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. [2] (This book is the first systematic attempt to relate physiology with psychology, though based on the medicine of Galen. [ citation needed ])

Carew was a member of the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries, and is particularly known for his Survey of Cornwall (1602), 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). [3]

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). [4] [ unreliable source ]

Carew died on 6 November 1620 and was buried in Antony church on 7 November. [5]

Selected publications

Notes

  1. D. Simon Evans (Autumn 1969). "The Story of Cornish". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review . 58 (231): 293–308. JSTOR   30087876 . Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  2. Courtney 1887.
  3. Chisholm 1911.
  4. "Richard CAREW". Tudor Place. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  5. Carew 1969, pp. 68–69.

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References

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

1586–1587
Succeeded by