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Admitted 9 February, 1776.

Only son of the Most Rev. John, Archbishop of Dublin. He was born in Dublin, 12 Aug. 1762. The year following his admission he entered the army as Cornet, and received rapid promotion, becoming Lieutenant-Colonel in 1789, and proceeding to the West Indies in the following year in command of his regiment. He there, and subsequently in Ireland, served with great distinction, and in 1798 was made Major-General. From 1785 to the Union he sat in the Irish Parliament as a supporter of the Government. He subsequently served in Egypt under Abercrombie, and in 1803 was made Military Commander in Madras. In 1808 he was sent into Portugal, but was shortly afterwards superseded by Sir Arthur Wellesley, and made Governor of Gibraltar. Thence he was transferred to the Cape in 1811. Though made a General in 1812, and a Peer in 1831, he considered himself by the above transfers a badly treated man. His name appears on the Register as "Cradock," which became changed to Caradoc in 1820. He died at Grimston, Yorkshire, 6 July, 1839.



Admitted 18 March, 1627-8.

Son and heir of Richard Carew of Antony, Cornwall, where he waa born 30 Aug. 1609. He served in the Long Parliament as one of the representatives of Cornwall. At the outbreak of the Civil War he held the Island of Nicholas, Plymouth, for the Parliament, but was charged with a design of surrendering it to the King, and executed on Tower Hill 23 Dec. 1644. His dying speech was printed the same year, and may be found in the collection known as England's Black Tribunal, published in 1660.



Admitted 3 February, 1576-7.

Second son of Thomas Carew of Antony, Cornwall. On his call to the Bar he became secretary to Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor, and was knighted 23 July 1603. In 1597 he was sent as Ambassador to Poland, and in 1599 became a Master in Chancery. In the beginning of James I.'s reign he was one of the commissioners for treating with the Scotch concerning the Union; after which, he became Ambassador in France till 1609. After his return from France he held the post of Master of the Court of Wards, but only for a short time, as he died 13 Nov. 1612. Sir George Carew was held in high esteem by the learned of his time, particularly by Thuanus, to whom he supplied matter for his History, and he has left behind him the following valuable Tracts: ''A Relation of the State of France, with the characters of Henry IV. and the Principal Persons of that Court, and An Historical View of the Negociations between the Courts of England, France, and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617''. These two treatises were edited by Dr. Birch and published together in 1749. Carew also collected a volume of Reports of Cases in Chancery, which were first printed in 1650.



The younger son of Sir Wymond Carew of Antony, Cornwall. His admission must have been before 1551, and recorded in the missing Register, as there is no entry of it in the later ones. He was educated at Westminster School, and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a Fellow. He also studied