Thomas Carey (English politician)

For other people named Thomas Carey, see Thomas Carey (disambiguation).

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Thomas Carey (right), with members of his family including his father, the Earl of Monmouth (centre)

Thomas Carey (died 9 April 1634) was an English Member of Parliament.

Biography

The second son of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth, he represented Helston (1624–25), Tregony (1625–26) and St Mawes (1628–29). He lived at Sunninghill Park in Berkshire and died in 1634, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Family

Carey married, Margaret, daughter of the Master of Requests, Thomas Smith of Abingdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) & Parson's Green, Middlesex. After Carey died she remarried Sir Edward Herbert of Aston, Montgomeryshire and became the mother of Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington and Sir Edward Herbert, the Lord Chief Justice.

References

Parliament of England
Preceded by Sir Thomas Stafford William Noy	Member of Parliament for Helston with Francis Carew 1624–1625	Succeeded by Francis Godolphin Francis Carew
Preceded by Sir Henry Carey Sebastian Goode	Member of Parliament for Tregony with Sir Robert Killigrew 1625–1626	Succeeded by Francis Rous Sir John Arundell
Preceded by Sir Henry Carey William Carr	Member of Parliament for St Mawes with Hannibal Vyvyan 1628–1629	Succeeded by Dr George Parry Lord Sheffield