Richard Carew

Richard Carew (1555–1620) was a Cornish translator and antiquary.

A county gentleman of Cornwall, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he was a contemporary of Sir Philip Sydney and William Camden, and then at the Middle Temple. He made a translation of the first five cantos of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1594), more correct than that of Edward Fairfax. Other works were The Survey of Cornwall (1602), and an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue (1605).

He served as Sheriff of Cornwall, and as MP for Saltash and later Mitchell.

Publications

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.

Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Bedford	Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall jointly with Sir Francis Godolphin, Sir William Mohun, and Peter Edgcumbe 1586–1587	Succeeded by Sir Walter Raleigh

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