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CAREW, RICHARD (1555–1620)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 328 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAREW, See also:RICHARD (1555–1620) , See also:English poet and See also:antiquary, was See also:born on the 17th of See also:July 1555, at Antony See also:House, See also:East Antony, See also:Cornwall. At the See also:age of eleven, he entered See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, and when only fourteen was chosen to carry on an extempore debate with See also:Sir See also:Philip See also:Sidney, in presence of the earls of See also:Leicester and See also:Warwick and other noblemen. From Oxford he removed to the See also:Middle See also:Temple, where he spent three years, and then went abroad. By his See also:marriage with Juliana See also:Arundel in 1597 he added Coswarth to the estates he had already inherited from his See also:father. In 1586 he was appointed high-See also:sheriff of Cornwall; he entered See also:parliament in 1584; and he served under Sir See also:Walter See also:Raleigh, then See also:lord See also:lieutenant of Cornwall, as treasurer. He became a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1589, and was a friend of See also:William See also:Camden and Sir See also:Henry See also:Spelman. His See also:great See also:work is the Survey of Cornwall, published in 1602, and reprinted in 1769 and 1811. It still possesses See also:interest, apart from its antiquarian value, for the picture it gives of the See also:life and interests of a See also:country See also:gentleman of the days of See also:Elizabeth. Carew's other See also:works are:—a See also:translation of the first five Cantos of See also:Tasso's Gerusalemme (1594), printed in the first instance without the author's knowledge, and entitled See also:Godfrey of Balloigne, or the Recouerie of Hierusalam ; The Examination of Men's Wits (1594), a translation of an See also:Italian version of See also:John Huarte's Examen de Ingenios; and An See also:Epistle concerning the Excellences of the English See also:Tongue (16os). Carew died on the 6th of See also:November 162o. His son, Sir RICHARD CAREW (d. 1643?), was the author of a True and Readie Way to learn the Latine Tongue, by writers of three nations, published by See also:Samuel See also:Hartlib in 1654.

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