Richard Carew (died 1691)
Richard Carew may refer to: * Richard Carew (antiquary) (1555–1620), English translator and antiquary * Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet (c. 1580–1643), medical experimenter and educationist, son of the antiquary See also * Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet (born 1938) *Carew (surname) Carew is a Welsh and Cornish habitation-type surname; it has also been used as a synonym for the Irish patronymic Ó Corráin. ''Carey'' can be a variant. History The Cambro-Norman Carew family sprang from the same stock as the FitzGeralds: viz. ...

Richard Carew (antiquary)
Richard Carew (17 July 1555 – 6 November 1620) was a British translator and antiquary. He is best known for his county history, ''Survey of Cornwall'' (1602). 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. (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), the second English count ...
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Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet (ca. 1580 – 14 March 1643), of Antony in Cornwall, was a British writer and Member of Parliament. Life Carew was the eldest son of the antiquary Richard Carew (1555–1620). He was educated at Oxford, probably at Merton, and studied law at the Middle Temple. He also visited the courts of Poland, Sweden and France, the first two as part of an embassy led by his uncle and the last in attendance on the ambassador, Sir Henry Nevill. He entered Parliament in 1614 as member for Cornwall, and subsequently also represented Mitchell in 1621–2. Carew published several works, including a treatise written to prove that "a warming stone" was "useful and comfortable for the colds of aged and sick people". His most notable work, however, was the ''True and readie Way to learne the Latine Tongue, attested by three excellently learned and approved authours of three nations'', of which he was the English author. This was not published until 1654, well after ...
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Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet
Sir John Richard Walter Reginald Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, OBE, DL (born 2 December 1938) is the present holder of the Pole baronetcy, granted to his ancestor by King Charles I in 1628. He lives at Antony House in Cornwall. He succeeded his father, Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet, in 1993. Public service Sir Richard is a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Cornwall, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, the Pilgrim Trust, and the Eden Project, a Governor of Gresham's School, Holt, and President of the Cornwall Gardens Trust. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1978 and is a past Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers and a past president of the Royal Horticultural Society, from which he received the Victoria Medal of Honour in 2007. His wife, Mary Dawnay (Lady Carew Pole), is a Lady-in-Waiting to Anne, Princess Royal and past President of the Royal Cornwall Show The Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show, usual ...
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