Sir George Carew (died 13 November 1612) was an English diplomat, historian and Member of Parliament.

Life

He was the second son of

Thomas Carew Thomas Carew (pronounced as "Carey") (1595 – 22 March 1640) was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets. Biography He was the son of Sir Matthew Carew, master in chancery, and his wife Alice, daughter of Sir John Rive ...

of Antony and brother of Richard Carew. He was educated at

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and entered the

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before travelling abroad. At the recommendation of Queen

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, who conferred on him the honour of a

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, he was appointed secretary to

Sir Christopher Hatton Sir Christopher Hatton KG (1540 – 20 November 1591) was an English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England. He was one of the judges who found Mary, Queen of Scots guilty of treason. Early years Sir ...

. Later, having been promoted to a Mastership in Chancery, he was sent as ambassador to the King of

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. He sat in Parliament for St. Germans in 1584, for

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in 1586, 1588, 1593, and for St. Germans in 1597 and 1601. The honour of

was conferred upon him at the

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on 23 July 1603. According to Dudley Carleton, Carew rode north to meet

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in June 1603, in an unsuccessful attempt to gain an office in her household.

Family

He married

Thomazine Carew Thomazine or Thomasine Carew was an English courtier. Thomazine Goldolphin was a daughter of Francis Godolphin and his first wife Margaret Killigrew. In 1588 she married George Carew (d. 1612), a son of Thomas Carew of Antony According to D ...

, the daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin and his first wife Margaret Killigrew. They had two sons and three daughters, including: * Francis Carew, son and heir. * Louisa Carew, who married John Houston. * Sophia Carew, mother of '' La Belle Stuart''. Thomazine, or Thomasine, Lady Carew, was a lady-in-waiting to

. The queen gave her gifts of clothes she had worn, including in February 1610 at

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, a black satin gown in a plain bias cut, and another black gown with blue "galloons" or lace strips. Lady Carew walked in the procession at Anne of Denmark's funeral in 1619 as a lady of the Privy Chamber.

Writings

During the reign of

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he was employed in negotiations with

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and for several years was ambassador to the court of France. On his return, he wrote a ''Relation of the State of France'', written in the classical style of the Elizabethan age and featuring sketches of the leading persons at the court of Henry IV. It appears as an appendix to

Thomas Birch Thomas Birch (23 November 17059 January 1766) was an English historian. Life He was the son of Joseph Birch, a coffee-mill maker, and was born at Clerkenwell. He preferred study to business but, as his parents were Quakers, he did not go to t ...

's ''Historical View of the Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617'', 1749.Full title: ''An historical view of the negotiations between the courts of England, France, and Brussels, from the year 1592 to 1617: Extracted chiefly from the MS. State-Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Knt. Ambassador in France, and at Brussels, and Treasurer of the Household to the Kings James I. and Charles I. and of Anthony Bacon, Esq; brother to the Lord Chancellor Bacon. To which is added, a relation of the state of France, with the characters of Henry IV. and the principal persons of the court, drawn up by Sir George Carew, upon his return from his Embassy there in 1609, and addressed to King James I. Never before printed''. London: for A. Millar. The work ''A Relation of the State of Polonia'', produced between 1598 and 1603, used to be attributed to Carew, but in 2014 Sobecki definitively identified John Peyton as the author and the coronation of

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in 1603 as the date of completion. Sobecki's identification is based on Peyton's letters about this work and the finding of a second copy of ''A Relation of the State of Polonia'' written in Peyton's hand and dated and signed by Peyton himself.

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English diplomats English knights English MPs 1584–1585 English MPs 1586–1587 English MPs 1589 English MPs 1593 English MPs 1597–1598 English MPs 1601 English MPs 1604–1611 Members of the Middle Temple Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall People from Antony, Cornwall Year of birth missing Knights Bachelor

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