Carey, Henry

Carey, Henry

▪ British writer and musician
born c. 1687, England
died Oct. 4, 1743, London

      English poet, playwright, and musician chiefly remembered for his ballads, especially “Sally in Our Alley,” which appeared in a collection of his best poems set to music, called The Musical Century (1737). Despite the popularity of his work, Carey suffered great poverty, largely because his plays and poems were widely pirated by unscrupulous printers.

      Until the 1930 edition of his poetry was published, Carey was reputed to be the illegitimate son of George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax; it is now suggested that he was Savile's illegitimate grandson. Carey went to London (perhaps from Yorkshire) sometime before 1713, when his first book of poems was published. He studied music and began to work for the theatre, often providing both words and music for a number of farces, burlesques, ballad operas, and interludes; of his theatre work, the best is perhaps The Honest Yorkshire-Man (1735), although the best known is Chrononhotonthologos (1734). His commissions fell off after 1740. Heavily in debt, Carey committed suicide by hanging. His son later claimed that his father was the author of “God Save the Queen,” but this claim is unproved.

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