John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover

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• 'John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover1
• 'M, #3532, b. circa 1608, d. 26 May 1677
• Last Edited=29 Apr 2006
• ' John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover was born circa 1608.1 He was the son of John Carey, 1st Earl of Dover and Judith Pelham.1,2 He married, firstly, Lady Dorothy St. John, daughter of Oliver St. John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke and Elizabeth Paulet, on 9 May 1628.3 He married, secondly, Abigail Cokayne, daughter of Sir William Cokayne and Mary Morris, on 2 December 1630 at St. Peter le Poor, London, England.3 He died on 26 May 1677, without male issue.1 He was buried on 1 June 1677 at Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.3 He died intestate and his estate was administered on 9 June 1681, to a creditor.3
• ' John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover was invested as a Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.) on 1 February 1626.3 He was styled as Viscount Rochford between 1628 and 1666.3 He succeeded to the title of 5th Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon, co. Hertford [E., 1559] on 3 November 1640.3 He gained the rank of Colonel in 1642 in the service of the a regiment of Foot.3 In 1644 he was accused of high treason for adhering to the Royalist cause.3 He held the office of Speaker of the House of Lords between 1 August 1647 and 5 August 1647.3 He succeeded to the title of 2nd Viscount Rochford [E., 1621] in April 1666. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Dover, co. Kent [E., 1628] in April 1666.3
• ' On his death, the Earldom of Dover and Viscountcy of Rochdale became extinct.3
• 'Child of John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover and Abigail Cokayne
  • 1.Lady Mary Carey+3 b. 6 Oct 1631, d. 19 Jan 1695/96
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VI, page 630. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume IV, page 445.
• 3.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume IV, page 446.
• http://thepeerage.com/p354.htm#i3532
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carey,_2nd_Earl_of_Dover
• 'John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover (1608 – 26 May 1677)[1] was an English peer, styled Viscount Rochford from 1628 to 1666. He was a descendant of the Boleyn family through Mary Boleyn and was the son of Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover and Judith Pelham, daughter of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet.
• 'In 1640, he was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Hunsdon through a writ of acceleration. He succeeded his father as Earl of Dover in 1666. That title became extinct on his death in 1677; he was succeeded as Baron Hunsdon by his distant cousin, Robert.
• References
• 1.^ http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersD4.htm
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Hunsdon
• Baron Hunsdon is a title that has been created twice. It was first created in 1559 in the Peerage of England for the soldier and courtier Henry Carey. His grandson, the fourth Baron, was created Viscount Rochford in 1621 and Earl of Dover, in the County of Kent, in 1628. These titles were also in the Peerage of England. He was 'succeeded by his son, the second Earl. He had already in 1640 been summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's barony of Hunsdon. However, on his death in 1677 the viscountcy and earldom became extinct. The barony passed to his second cousin once removed, the sixth Baron'. He was the great-grandson of Sir Edmund Carey, younger son of the first Baron. On his death the title passed to his first cousin, the seventh Baron. He died unmarried and was succeeded by his first cousin once removed, the eighth Baron. On the latter's death in 1765 the barony became extinct as well.
• The title was created again in 1923 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The barony was revived for the businessman the Hon. Herbert Gibbs, who was made Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon, of Briggens in the County of Hertford. Although the full title of the barony is Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon, only Baron Hunsdon is used in practice. Gibbs was the fourth son of Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham (see the Baron Aldenham for earlier history of the family). He was a partner in the family firm of Antony Gibbs & Sons and also served as Chairman of the Public Works Loan Board. In 1908 Gibbs acquired Hunsdon House and the Briggens Estate in Hertfordshire. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. In 1939 he succeeded his cousin in the barony of Aldenham. The two baronies remain united.
• Barons Hunsdon, First Creation (1559)
• Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (1526–1596)
• George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon (c. 1556–1603)
• John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon (1563–1617)
• Henry Carey, 4th Baron Hunsdon (d. 1666) (created Earl of Dover in 1628)
• Earls of Dover (1628)
• Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover, 4th Baron Hunsdon (d. 1666)
• 'John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover, 5th Baron Hunsdon (1608–1677)'
• Barons Hunsdon, First Creation (1559; Reverted)
• Robert Carey, 6th Baron Hunsdon (d. 1692)
• Robert Carey, 7th Baron Hunsdon (d. 1702)
• William Ferdinand Carey, 8th Baron Hunsdon (1684–1765)
• Barons Hunsdon, Second Creation (1923)
• Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon (1854–1935)
• Walter Durant Gibbs, 2nd Baron Hunsdon (1888–1969) (succeeded as Baron Aldenham in 1939)
• see Baron Aldenham for further succession
• See also
• Baron Wraxall
• References
• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
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• 'A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct ... By Sir Bernard Burke
• http://books.google.com/books?id=K3MaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq...
• Pg. 126
• COCKAYNE -- VISCOUNT CULLEN.
• By letters Patent, dated 11 August, 1642.
• Lineage.
• The Cockyns, Cockeyns, or Cockaynes were of importance in the co. of Derby soon after the Conquest, and were seated at Ashbourne, in that shire, where some magnificent monuments of the family still remain.
• SIR WILLIAM COCKAYNE, Knt., sheriff of London in 1609, and soon after an alderman of the same city. Upon the establishment made by King JAMES I. in the province of Ulster, in Ireland, anno 1612, a considerable tract of land was granted to the city of London, when about 300 artificers were despatched to commence and forward its plantation, of whom this William Cockayne was appointed first director and governor, and under his direction the city of Londonderry was founded, having obtained himself a considerable grant in the vicinity. He was knighted 8 June, 1616. In 1619, he served the office of lord mayor, and that year purchased the manor of Elmsthorpe, co. Leicester, from sir John Harrington. He m. Mary, dau. of Richard Morris, Esq., of London, by whom he had,
  • ' V. Abigail, m. to John Carey, Earl of Dover, by whom she had an only dau. Mary, m. to William Heveningham, Esq., of Heveningham, co. Suffolk.
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cockayne
• Sir William Cockayne (Cokayne) (1561 – 20 October 1626), London, England, was a seventeenth-century London merchant, alderman, and, in 1619, Lord Mayor.
• Life
• He was second son of William Cokayne of Baddesley Ensor, Warwickshire, merchant of London, sometime governor of the Eastland Company, by Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Medcalfe of Meriden, Warwickshire; and was descended from William Cokayne of Sturston, Derbyshire, a younger son of Sir John Cokayne of Ashbourne in that county. Apprenticed at Christmas 1582 to his father, he was made free of the Skinners' Company by patrimony 28 March 1590. On his father's death, 28 November 1599, he succeeded to his business.
• He was sheriff of London 1609, and alderman of Farringdon Without 1609–13, of Castle Baynard 1613–18, of Lime Street 1618–25, of Broad Street 1625 till his death.
• Governor of Londonderry
• In 1612, when the plantation of Ulster was begun, he was the first governor of the colonists, and under his directions the city of Londonderry was established.
• On 8 June 1616 the king James I honoured him with his presence at dinner at his house in Broad Street (Cokayne House, exactly opposite St. Peter's Church), where he dubbed him a knight.
• Mayor of London
• During Cockayne's mayoralty (1619–20) King James visited St. Paul's Cathedral with a view to raising money to complete the spire, and was received by Cockayne in great state. A pageant entitled ‘The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity’ was performed; the entertainments, which started at Cockayne's house on Monday and Tuesday in Easter week 1620, terminated on Saturday with service for the lords of the privy council, when the marriage was celebrated between Charles, lord Howard, baron of Effingham, and Mary, Cockayne's daughter. The king frequently consulted him, both in council and privately.
• The Cockayne project
• In 1614, while serving as governor of the Eastland Company of English merchants, Cockayne devised a plan to dye and dress English cloth, England's main export at the time, before shipping it abroad. Cockayne convinced James I to grant him a monopoly on cloth exports as a part of this plan, intended to increase the profits of English merchants, Cockayne's in particular, while boosting royal customs duties through bypassing Dutch merchants. The scheme failed as the Dutch refused to purchase finished cloth, and the English cloth trade was depressed for decades as a result.
• Later life
• William Baffin was equipped for one of his northern voyages by him and others of the Merchant Adventurers' Company and, in his honour. a harbour in Greenland, called on the admiralty chart ‘Cockin's Sound,’ was named.
• He purchased estates at Elmesthorpe, Leicestershire and Rushton which was later the residence of his descendants. He gave each of his numerous daughters £10,000. on marriage, leaving his son an annual rent roll of above £12,000. He died 20 October 1626, in his sixty-sixth year, at his manor house at Comb Nevill in Kingston, Surrey, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, where a monument was erected to him. His funeral sermon was preached by John Donne.
• Family
• He married Mary Morris on 22 June 1596 in London and they had issue:
  • Charles Cockayne, 1st Viscount Cullen
  • Anne Cockayne (b. 1604)
  • Martha Cockayne (1605–1641), who married Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey
  • Jane Cockayne (b. 1609)
  • 'Abigail Cockayne (1610–1687), who married John Carey, 2nd Earl of Dover
  • Mary Cockayne, who married Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
  • Other daughters married Sir Hatton Fermor, ancestor of the Earls of Pomfret; John Ramsay, created Earl of Holdernesse; Thomas Fanshawe, created Viscount Fanshawe; and Hon. James Sheffield, son of the Earl of Mulgrave.
• His widow remarried, 6 July 1630, Henry Carey, 4th Baron Hunsdon, 1st Earl of Dover, and, dying 24 December 1648, was buried with her first husband at St. Paul's.
• References
• List of Lord Mayors of London
• Astrid Friis. Alderman Cockayne's Project and the Cloth Trade. London: Milford, 1927.
• J P Sommerville's 'The Rule of the Howards'
• Joel D. Benson. Changes and Expansion in the English Cloth Trade in the Seventeenth Century: Alderman Cockayne's Project. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
• Attribution
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Cokayne, William". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900?. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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