MONMOUTH, ROBERT CAREY, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1560-1639)

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MONMOUTH, ROBERT CAREY, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1560-1639) , youngest son of

Henry

Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, chamberlain and first

cousin

of Queen Elizabeth, by Anne, daughter bf Sir

Thomas

Morgan, of Arkestone in Herefordshire, was born about the year 156o. As a

young

man he accompanied several diplomatic missions abroad and took part in military expeditions. In 1587 he joined in the attempt to relieve Sluys, in 1588 served as a volunteer against the Spanish expedition, and commanded a regiment in Essex's expedition to Normandy in 1591, taking part in the siege of Rouen. He was knighted by Essex the same year for having by his intercession with the queen procured his recall. In the parliaments of 1586 and 1588 he represented Morpeth; in that of 1593, Callington; and in those of 1596 and 16oi, Northumberland. From 1593 till the end of Elizabeth's reign he occupied various posts in the government of the Scottish borders, succeeding to his father's appointment of lord warden of the marches in 1596, which he held till February 1598. In March 1603 he visited the court, and witnessed the queen's last illness, which he described in his Memoirs. Anxious to recommend himself to her successor, and disobeying the orders of the council, he started on horseback immediately after the queen's death on the morning of the 24th of March, in order to be the first to communicate the tidings to James, arrived at Holy-rood

late

LATE

on the 26th, and was appointed by the king a

gentleman

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its
original
- ORIGINAL
and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

of the bedchamber. But his conduct met with general and merited censure as " contrary to all decency, good manners and respect," and on'James's arrival in England he was dismissed from his new post. On the 23rd of February 16o5, however, he was made

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of Prince Charles, in 1611 his master of the robes, in 1617 his chamberlain, and on the 6th of February 1622, he was created Baron Carey of Leppington. In 1623 he followed Charles to Spain, and after the latter's succession to the throne he was created

earl

EARL

of Monmouth in 1626. He died on the 12th of April 1639. His eldest son

HENRY

(1596-1661), succeeded him as 2nd

earl

EARL

of Monmouth, and on his death without surviving male issue the peerage became extinct.
His Memoirs were published first by the earl of Cork and

Orrery

ORRERY
ORRERY, ROGER BOYLE, 1ST EARL OF (1621-1679)

in 1759, a new edition, annotated by Sir Walter Scott, being printed in 18o8.

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