Person:Henry Carey (12)

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Henry Carey
b.Abt 26 Aug 1687
d.5 Oct 1743
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  • M.  Mary Carey (add)
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  1. Henry CareyAbt 1687 - 1743
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  • H.  Henry CareyAbt 1687 - 1743
  • W.  Elizabeth Pearks (add)
m. 1 Sep 1717
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  • H.  Henry CareyAbt 1687 - 1743
  • W.  Sarah Harrison (add)
m. Feb 1737/38
  1. Susannah Carey1734 -
  2. Catharine Clive Carey1735 -
  3. Henry Savile Carey1736/37 -
  4. George Savile Carey1738 - 1807
  5. William Savile Carey1741 -
  6. Charles Colborne Carey1743 - 1743
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Name[1] Henry Carey
Gender Male
Birth[2] Abt 26 Aug 1687
Marriage 1 Sep 1717 Westminster, Middlesex, Englandto Elizabeth Pearks (add)
Alt Marriage 1 Sep 1720 Westminster, Middlesex, Englandto Elizabeth Pearks (add)
Marriage Feb 1737/38 Westminster, Middlesex, Englandto Sarah Harrison (add)
Alt Marriage Feb 1737/38 City of London, Middlesex, Englandto Sarah Harrison (add)
Death[2] 5 Oct 1743
Reference Number? Q1606590?


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Henry Carey (c. 26 August 1687 – 5 October 1743) was an English poet, dramatist and songwriter. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death. Because he worked in anonymity, selling his own compositions to others to pass off as their own, contemporary scholarship can only be certain of some of his poetry, and a great deal of the music he composed was written for theatrical incidental music. However, under his own name and hand, he was a prolific songwriter and balladeer, and he wrote the lyrics for almost all of these songs. Further, he wrote numerous operas and plays. His life is illustrative of the professional author in the early 18th century. Without inheritance or title or governmental position, he wrote for all of the remunerative venues, and yet he also kept his own political point of view and was able to score significant points against the ministry of the day. Further, he was one of the leading lights of the new "Patriotic" movement in drama.

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  1. ↑ Stephen, Leslie, ed, and Sidney, ed Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. (London: Smith, Elder, 1885-1900)
    9:62-63, 50:362.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Henry Carey (writer), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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