Sir Nicholas Carew, 1st Baronet (6 February 1687 – 18 March 1727), of

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, near Croydon was a landowner and Whig politician who sat in the

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between 1708 and 1727. Carew manor

Carew was only surviving son and heir of Sir Francis Carew (died 1689) and his wife Anne Boteler, daughter of William Boteler. His father was a great-grandson of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who had changed his name to Carew on inheriting the

estate from his maternal uncle, Sir Francis Carew (died 1611). Carew was two years old when he succeeded to Beddington on the death of his father aged 26 on 29 September 1689.

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(1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 26 By this time the house was in a state of neglect. He was admitted at

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in April 1703. He married Elizabeth Hackett, daughter of Nicholas Hackett of North Crawley,

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(with £2,000) on 2 February 1709. Carew's uncle Nicholas was politically active, tried unsuccessfully to enter Parliament and provided encouragement to his nephew. Carew was returned unopposed as

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for

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at a by-election on 13 December 1708. He made little impression in Parliament and lost his seat at the 1710 general election. He did not stand at the 1713 general election, but was returned for Haslemere again at a by-election on 18 March 1714.Gauci, Perry (2002)
CAREW, Nicholas (1686–1727), of Beddington, Surr. and Dover Street, Piccadilly, London
in ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690–1715'', edited by D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley He was created a baronet on 11 January 1715. At the 1715 general election he was elected, after a scrutiny of the poll, as Whig MP for Haslemere. He supported the Administration, with the exception of the

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. At the 1722 general election, he changed seats and was elected MP for

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. Carew died at the age of 40 on 18 March 1727, just before the general election. He and his wife had two sons and two daughters. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second but only surviving son, Nicholas Hacket Carew. His widow married William Chetwynd, a former MP for Wooton Bassett. She died in February 1740 at

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, while travelling to the

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