CAREW, Sir Gawain (c.1503-85), of Exeter and Wood, Devon and of London.

Family and Education

b. 1503, 4th s. of Sir Edmund Carew of Mohun’s Ottery, Devon by Catherine, da. and coh. of Sir William Huddesfield of Shillingford, Devon. m. (1) lic. 28 Jan. 1531, Anne, da. of Sir William Brandon, wid. of Sir John Shilston of Wood and of Southwark, Surr., s.p.; (2) by July 1540, Mary, da. of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, wid. of Sir Henry Guildford of Leeds Castle, Kent and Blackfriars, London, s.p.; (3) by Dec. 1565, Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Norwiche, s.p. Kntd. 1545.

Offices Held

Gent. pens. 1539 – 49; sheriff, Devon 1547 – 48, j.p. 1547 – 53, from 1559; dep. lt. Cornw. and Devon 1569; master of henchmen Dec. 1558; commr. piracy, commr. for maritime causes, Devon 1578.Vis. Devon, ed. Vivian, 135; Mill Stephenson, Mon. Brasses, 93; Lond. Mar. Lic. (Harl. Soc. xxv), 8; CSP Dom. Add. 1566–79, p. 130; Lansd. 146, f. 19; APC, vii. 34; Roberts thesis.

Parlimentarian

CAREW, Gawain (c.1503-85), of Exeter and Wood, Devon and London.

Main residences: Exeter; Wood, Devon; of London.

Author

P.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

CAREW, Sir Gawain (c.1503-85)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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