Author: Carey, Patrick
Biography:
CAREY, Patrick (c. 1624-1657: ODNB)
Carey or Cary is a prior author whose poems were not published in his lifetime. By 1771 the manuscript containing his verses was in the possession of the Rev. Pierrepoint Cromp of Frinstead, Kent; he presented it to the publisher John Murray, then of Fleet Street in London, who published nine of the poems as Poems, From a Manuscript. Murray’s son, also John Murray, gave the manuscript to Walter Scott (q.v.) who published “Account of the Poems of Patrick Carey” with specimens of the verse in the Edinburgh Annual Register in 1810. Scott prepared a complete edition from the manuscript in 1819 which was published by Murray in 1820. Patrick Carey was the eighth of nine children born to Henry Cary, Viscount Falkland, and his wife Elizabeth Tanfield. He was born in Ireland where his father was Lord Deputy (1622-29). In 1625 his parents separated and Elizabeth Carey, who converted to Catholicism, returned to England with Patrick and some of his siblings. He was educated at St. Edmund’s, Paris, and later moved to Rome. In 1650 he returned to England, renounced Catholicism, and married Susan Uvedale; they had one son who died in infancy. On 10 Feb. 1652 he was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn by special request of William Lenthall, Master of the Rolls. After being called to the bar he moved to Ireland where he had a successful legal career and became justice of the peace for County Meath. He died in Ireland and was buried on 15 Mar. 1657. (ODNB [as Cary] 20 Oct. 2023; DIB [for Henry Cary] 20 Oct. 2023; Millgate; Herbert Grierson, ed., Collected Letters of Sir Walter Scott [1932], vol. 5, 401-02; Records of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn [1896], vol. 1, 264.) SR
Other Names:
- Patrick Cary