Sir Coventry Carew, 6th Baronet (c.1716 – 24 March 1748) was a British

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politician.

Biography

Carew was the son of Sir William Carew, 5th Baronet and Lady Anne Coventry, daughter of Gilbert Coventry, 4th Earl of Coventry. He was educated at

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. On 1 July 1738 he married Mary, daughter of

Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet Sir Coplestone Warwick Bampfylde, 3rd Baronet (c. 1689 – 7 October 1727) of Manor of Poltimore, Poltimore and Manor of North Molton, North Molton, Devon, was a Great Britain, British landowner and High Tory politician who sat in the British Hou ...

. He succeeded to his father's

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in 1744. In 1744, Carew was elected as a Tory Member of Parliament for

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. In 1746 he voted against the use of the

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to suppress the

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. He died in 1748.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carew, Coventry, 6th Baronet 1710s births 1748 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British MPs 1741–1747 British MPs 1747–1754 Carew baronets Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Cornwall Tory members of the Parliament of Great Britain