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 intrinsic merit, obtained a wide circulation on account of their light, gossipy style, and the fact that in this species of literature there was then comparatively little competition. In 1803 he published ‘The Stranger in France, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris,’ which, meeting with immediate success, was followed in 1805 by ‘A Northern Summer, or Travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, part of Poland, and Prussia, in 1804;’ in 1806 by ‘The Stranger in Ireland, or a Tour in the Southern and Western parts of that country in 1805,’ soon after which he was knighted by the Duke of Bedford, then viceroy of Ireland; and in 1807 by ‘A Tour through Holland, along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in 1806.’ In 1807 his ‘Tour in Ireland’ was made the subject of a clever jeu d'esprit by Edward Dubois, entitled ‘My Pocket Book, or Hints for a Ryghte Merrie and Conceited Tour in 4to, to be called “The Stranger in Ireland in 1805, by a Knight Errant,” and dedicated to the paper-makers.’ For this satire the publishers, Messrs. Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, were prosecuted in 1809, but Carr was nonsuited. In 1808 there appeared ‘Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807,’ which was made the subject of a witty review by Sir Walter Scott in the ‘Quarterly Review;’ and in 1811 ‘Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles [Majorca and Minorca] in the year 1809.’ Lord Byron—who had met Carr at Cadiz, and had begged ‘not to be put down in black and white’—refers to him in some suppressed stanzas of ‘Childe Harold’ as ‘Green Erin's knight and Europe's wandering star.’ Besides his books of travels Carr was the author of ‘The Fury of Discord, a poem,’ 1803; ‘The Seaside Hero, a drama in three acts,’ 1804 (on the supposed repulse of an anticipated invasion, the scene being laid on the coast of Sussex); and a volume of ‘Poems,’ 1809, to which his portrait was prefixed. He died in New Norfolk Street, London, on 17 July 1832.

 CARR, JOHNSON (1744–1765), landscape painter, a pupil of Richard Wilson, died of consumption in his twenty-second year on 16 Jan. 1765. He was of a respectable family of the north, and obtained several premiums given by the Society of Arts for drawings by youths under the age of nineteen, receiving the first prize in 1762 and 1763.

 CARR, NICHOLAS, M.D. (1524–1568), classical scholar, descended from a good family, was born at Newcastle in 1524. At an early age he was sent to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied under Cuthbert Scot, afterwards bishop of Chester. He subsequently migrated to Pembroke Hall, where his tutor was Nicholas Ridley, and proceeded B.A. in 1540-1, being soon afterwards elected a fellow of Pembroke Hall, and commencing M.A. in 1544. On the foundation of Trinity College in 1546 he was nominated one of the original fellows, and the following year he was appointed regius professor of Greek. His lectures on Demosthenes, Plato, Sophocles, and other writers gained for him a high reputation for scholarship. Although he bad formerly composed a panegyric on Martin Bucer, which was sent by him to John (afterwards Sir John) Cheke, he subscribed the catholic articles in 1556, and two years later he was one of those who bore witness on oath against the heresies and doctrine of Bucer and Fagius (, Acts and Monuments, ed. Townsend, viii. 274). From this period he seems to have been attached to the ancient faith. He took the degree of M.D. in 1558, and began to practise at Cambridge as a physician, though for four years he continued to read the Greek lecture, at the end of which period he appointed Blithe of Trinity College to lecture for him. He was obliged to resort to the study of medicine in order to maintain his wife and family, the stipend of the Greek professor being insufficient for that purpose. He occupied the house in which Bucer died, and there Carr also died on 3 Nov. 1568. He was buried in St. Michael's Church, but as the congregation was very large, consisting of the whole university, the funeral sermon was preached at St. Mary's by Dr. Chaderton [q. v.], after which the congregation returned to St. Michael's. A handsome mural monument of stone, with inscriptions in Latin and English, was erected to his memory in St. Giles's Church.

His works are; 1. 'Epistola de morte Buceri ad Johannem Checum,' London, 1561, 1681, 4to, i reprinted in Bucer's 'Scripta Anglicana,' Basle, 1677, fol. p. 867, and in Conrad Hubert's 'Historia vera de vita M. Buceri,' Strasburg,1 562, 8to. 2. 'Duae epistolae Latinae doctori Chadertono,' 1566. MS. Cai. Coll. Cantab. 197, art. 52. 3. 'Eusebii Pamphili de vita Constantini,' Louvain, 1570, 8vo; Cologne, 1570, fol.; ex recensione Suffridi Petri, Cologne, 1681, fol.; ex recensione Benii, Cologne, 1612, fol. The fourth book only was translated by Carr; the others were translated by John Christopherson, bishop of 