Richard Carew

English scholar
verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Feedback
Corrections? Updates? Omissions? Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login).
Thank you for your feedback

Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.

Print
verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Feedback
Corrections? Updates? Omissions? Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login).
Thank you for your feedback

Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.

Quick Facts
Born:
July 17, 1555, East Antony, Cornwall, Eng.
Died:
Nov. 6, 1620 (aged 65)
Subjects Of Study:
Cornwall

Richard Carew (born July 17, 1555, East Antony, Cornwall, Eng.—died Nov. 6, 1620) was an English scholar and antiquary known especially for a history of Cornwall that gives an interesting picture of a country gentleman’s life about 1600.

Entering Christ Church, Oxford, at age 11, Carew later spent three years studying law and subsequently traveled abroad. He entered Parliament in 1584, became high sheriff of Cornwall in 1586, and served as treasurer under the lord lieutenant.

In 1589 he began his Survey of Cornwall (1602; modern edition, 1953). He translated the first five cantos of Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, as Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recouverie of Hierusalem (1594). His last work was The Excellencie of the English Tongue (1614).

This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica.