Westminster Abbey » Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon & family. The monument to Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (1.
St John the Baptist's chapel is the tallest in Westminster Abbey, at thirty- six feet high. It is made of alabaster and marble with a considerable display of heraldry, which includes the Carey arms – . His crest is a swan and his motto . The heraldry on the monument was re- painted in the late 1.
Inscription. The monument was erected before 1. Latin inscription can be translated . Here sleeps in the Lord Henry Carey, Baron Hunsdon, one- time Governor of the town of Berwick, Warden of the east marches towards Scotland, Captain of the gentleman- pensioners, Chief Justice of the Forests south of the Trent, Knight of the Order of the Garter, Lord Chamberlain of the Lady Queen Elizabeth, sworn of the Privy Council, and first cousin to the aforesaid Queen.
Together with him is buried Anne, his dearest wife, daughter of Thomas Morgan, knight, who bore him many children, of whom there survive George, John, Edmund and Robert, knights, Catherine, Countess of Nottingham, Philadelphia, Baroness Scrope, and Margaret, Lady Hoby. He died 2. 3 July 1. His son, George Carey, Baron Hunsdon, member of the Order of the Garter, Captain- General of the Isle of Wight, Chamberlain of the household to Queen Elizabeth, Privy Councillor, and his wife Anne, placed this monument to the best of fathers and dearest of husbands, in his honour and memory, and being mindful of their own and their family's mortality. Mary was a mistress of Henry VIII and some said the king was actually the father of her child.
In 1. 54. 5 Henry Carey married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Morgan of Arkestone in Herefordshire and in 1. Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (in Hertfordshire). They had 1. 0 children. The youngest was Robert who was created Baron Carey of Leppington and then 1st Earl of Monmouth in 1.
Henry died at Somerset House in London and the Queen paid for his funeral at the Abbey. He was knighted for military services at Berwick, was a Member of Parliament, Marshal of the Queen's Household, and Knight Marshal and Captain of the Isle of Wight. He built a house at Carisbrooke Castle.
His widow married Ralph, Lord Eure. Also Thomas Carey, 2nd son of Robert, 1st Earl of Monmouth, groom of the bedchamber to Charles I, buried 1. April 1. 63. 4 (although he does not appear in the burial register) and his unmarried daughter Frances, buried 2. November 1. 65. 3. Robert was son of Ernestus Carey (brother of Horatio who was father of the 6th Baron Hunsdon) and was an officer in the army and died unmarried.
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The names are all recorded on a modern stone in front of the monument. See also the entry for Sir John Carey, Earl of Dover, eldest son of Henry 4th Baron Hunsdon. Thomas Carey. In the same chapel is a mural monument with an heraldic achievement to Thomas Carey, brother of Henry Carey 2nd Earl of Monmouth.
Thomas died in 1. The inscription gives a wrong age for him but the rest can be translated. Whatever still survived of nobility - the second son of the earl of Monmouth - whatever of virtue - the illustrious example - whatever was dearest to King Charles I - whom he served in the bedchamber with pious devotion - did not utterly perish before the year 1. He expired, and a most noble family, lacking a male heir, died out, as if prodigal nature, in fashioning him, had exhausted all the powers of the race.
Go hence, traveller, and mingle the numbness of reverence and grief. The coats of arms are of Carey, Holland, Beauchamp and Newburgh and the monument is possibly by sculptor William Stanton and was in place by 1.
Henry's sister, Dame Catherine Knollys (d. St Edmund's chapel in the Abbey. Photographs of the monuments can be purchased from Westminster Abbey Library.