Sir Philip Cary (c. 1579 – 1631) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

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between 1614 and 1625. Cary was the son of Edward Cary of

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, Hertfordshire. He matriculated at

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on 22 February 1594, aged 14. Cary was a student of

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in 1590. He was knighted on 23 May 1605, In 1614, he was elected

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for

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and re-elected in 1621, 1624 and 1625. 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Cabell-Chafe', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 228-254. Date accessed: 22 December 2011
/ref> Cary held estates at Caddington, Bedfordshire and Hunslet, Yorkshire. He died at the age of about 52 and was buried at Aldenham on 13 June 1631.

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