Family and Education
b. 4 Mar. 2526, o.s. of William Carey of Aldenham, Herts. by Mary, da. of Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond. m. lic. 21 May 1545, Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Morgan ?of Arkstone, Herefs., 9s. inc. Edmund, Sir George, Henry, John, Robert and William 3da. suc. fa. 22 June 1528. Kntd. Nov. 1558; cr. Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon 13 Jan. 1559; KG nom. 22 Apr. inst. 18 May 1561.Date of birth given in CP. Her. and Gen. iv. 34-35, 40, 129-31.
Offices Held
In the King’s household by May 1545; carver, the privy chamber by 1553–8 or later; master of the hawks 31 Oct. 1560; gov. Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumb. 25 Aug. 1568–87; warden, east marches 23 Oct. 1571; keeper, Somerset House 31 July 1574 – d.; PC 1577 – d.; capt. gent. pens. 1583; ld. chamberlain, the Household July 1585 – d.; c.j. in eyre south of Trent 1589 – d., itinerant of royal forests 20 Dec. 1591 – d.; recorder, Cambridge 1590; high steward, Doncaster and Ipswich 1590, Oxf. 2 Mar. 1592–d.
Main residences: Buckingham, Bucks.; Hunsdon, Herts.
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Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
CAREY, Henry (1526-96)
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Oxford 1644
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