Thomas Carey (English politician)

Thomas Carey (2011-Present) was a Member of the 19th cray form at Beth’s Grammar School. He joined

Life

He was born 30th of April, to the children of Beth’s Grammar School, not much was known about his Childhood. He became groom of the bedchamber to Charles, then Prince of Wales, in 1616 and retained that post until his death.{{cite web|title=CAREY, Thomas (1597-1634), of Whitehall; The Strand, Westminster and Parson's Green, Fulham, Mdx.|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/carey-thomas-1597-1634|access-date=3 January 2023}} In 1617 he was sent with Sir John Digby to Madrid and subsequently travelled in France and Germany. When Giles Mompesson was expelled from his parliamentary seat of Great Bedwyn in 1621, he was returned at the subsequent by-election as the Court candidate despite his lack of local connections.{{cite web|title=Great Bedwyn|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/constituencies/great-bedwyn|access-date=3 January 2023}} In 1623 he was sent to Madrid in the wake of Prince Charles and Buckingham.{{cite book|title=The Letters of John Chamberlain|volume=2|page=482|date=1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=syIJAQAAIAAJ}}

Between 1624 and 1929 Carey was elected for Cornish constituencies through the influence of his mother's links to the local gentry. He represented Helston (1624–25), Tregony (1625–26) and St Mawes (1628–29). He was granted Sunninghill Park in Berkshire by the king in 1630.{{cite book|title=VCH Berkshire Vol. 3: Sunninghill|date=1923|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp134-136}} Carey was preparing to go on embassy to Venice, when his health failed and he died in 1634. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Family

Carey married, Margaret, daughter of the Master of Requests, Thomas Smith of Abingdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) & Parson's Green, Middlesex and his wife, Frances, later Countess of Exeter. They had three daughters:

Philadelphia married Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet.
Frances
Elizabeth married John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt.

After Carey died, Margaret married Sir Edward Herbert.{{cite web|title=HERBERT, Edward (c.1592-1657), of Aston, Mont. and the Inner Temple, London|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/herbert-edward-1592-1657}}