Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover (ca. 158013 April 1666) of Hunsdon, Hertfordshire was an English peer and Member of Parliament.

Life

Carey was the son of

John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon (died 1617) was an English peer, politician and Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Life He was a son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Anne Morgan, the younger brother of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon and a gran ...

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awarded him an honorary MA in 1607. He was knighted, as a

Knight of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as on ...

(KB), on 3 June 1610. He was elected MP for Sussex in 1609 and Hertfordshire in 1614. Carey succeeded as 4th Baron Hunsdon on 17 April 1617. On 6 July 1621 he was created

Viscount Rochford Viscount Rochford is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England. The first creation was made in favour of Sir Thomas Boleyn in 1525 by King Henry VIII. The title was taken from Boleyn's Rochford country estate in Essex. In 15 ...

, a title previously held by his great-great-grandfather Thomas Boleyn, and on 8 March 1628 was created

Earl of Dover The title Earl of Dover has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Jacobite Peerage. The creation in the Peerage of England occurred in 1628 when Henry Carey, 1st Viscount Rochford, was created Earl of Dover, in the ...

. He acted as Speaker of the House of Lords in 1641, and was Colonel of the regiment of Oxford Scholars between 1644 and 1646. In 1638, he sued a London merchant Humphrey Fox for abuse, after Fox had allegedly insulted Dover's livery, worn by a London waterman. In 1653 he was indicted for counterfeiting coinage and was obliged to sell his Hunsdon estate to William Willoughby, the future 6th Lord Willoughby of Parham

Marriages and issue

Lord Dover married twice. His first marriage, before 1608, was to Judith Pelham, daughter of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet. They had four sons and four daughters: *

John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover (1608 – 26 May 1677), styled Viscount Rochford from 1628 to 1666, was an English peer. He was the eldest son of Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover, and Judith, daughter of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet. He was educated ...

* Sir Pelham Carey * Henry Carey (died young) * George Carey (died young) * Anne Carey * Mary Carey (1615–1672). Married

Thomas Wharton (died 1684) Sir Thomas Wharton KB (c. 1615 – 30 October 1684) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660. Wharton was the son of Sir Thomas Wharton of Aske Hall and his wife Lady Philadelphia Carey, daughter of Robert ...

* Judith Carey (died 1666) Never married. * Philadelphia Carey On 6 July 1630 he was married for a second time, to Mary Morris, daughter of Richard Morris and widow of

William Cockayne Sir William Cockayne (Cokayne) (1561 – 20 October 1626) was a seventeenth-century merchant, alderman, and Lord Mayor of the City of London. Life He was the second son of William Cokayne of Baddesley Ensor, Warwickshire, merchant of London, so ...

, at the church of St Peter Le Poer in

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Death

Henry Carey died in 1666, and was buried at

Hunsdon Hunsdon is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It is around east of Ware and north-west of Harlow. The population of the village taken at the 2011 Census was 1,080. See also * Baron Hunsdon * Hunsdon Airfield *The Hundred ...

in Hertfordshire. He was succeeded by his son from his first marriage,

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References

* * , - Births circa 1580 1666 deaths 16th-century English nobility 17th-century English nobility

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Members of the Parliament of England for Hertfordshire English MPs 1604–1611 English MPs 1614 Knights of the Bath Earls of Dover Barons Hunsdon {{17thC-England-MP-stub