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 Abt 1550 - 13.02.1625/26
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| Name |
Raleigh, Carew |
| Born |
Abt 1550 |
Of Devon, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
13.02.1625/26 |
Downton, Witshire, England |
| Person ID |
I04827 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
13 Jun 2015 |
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| Notes |
- History of Parliament Online:
Sir Carew Raleigh or Ralegh (c.1550 - c.1625), elder brother of Sir Walter Raleigh , was an English naval commander who served on the expedition led by his half-brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert , in 1578, and was on the list of sea-captains drawn up to meet the threat of a Spanish invasion in 1586; from 1591 to 1603 he was Vice-Admiral of Dorset. He sat as a Member of Parliament for Wiltshire in 1586-7, Ludgershall in 1588-9, Fowey in 1601 and Downton in 1604-11 and 1621-2. He was knighted in 1601, and was Lieutenant of the Isle of Portland .
History of Parliament Online :
...Some time before the death of Sir John Thynne in 1580 Ralegh had become his gentleman of the horse, and within a year or two he married Thynne’s widow. It is usually said that on his marriage Ralegh sold his Devon lands and set himself up at Downton House in Wiltshire; but both statements probably antedate the changes in question. Ralegh’s father died in 1581, ... By the 1580s Carew was certainly in process of transferring his attachment to Wiltshire - in 1582 he was a J.P. in that county, and two years later he was to represent it in Parliament - but not immediately to the exclusion of interests and duties in the west country. His wife’s connexions in Wiltshire, both in her own right as a Wroughton and through the Thynnes, could bring him influence there, ...For all that Carew Ralegh has been described as ‘mean and acquisitive’, he was not without personal charm. ...He was associated with his brother and his Gilbert half-brothers in those speculative discussions ... Perhaps Queen Elizabeth’s judgment of him, ‘Good Mr. Ralegh, who wonders at his own diligence (because diligence and he are not familiars)’, holds the clue to Carew Ralegh’s career, ... the knighthood conferred at Basing House honoured a country gentleman, not a national hero. Although he did not desert his brother in prison, he survived Sir Walter’s fall, to carry on the life that he had chosen, as little concerned by James I as James was concerned with him.
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