Carey

Carey, SIR ROBERT, youngest son of Lord Hunsdon, was born about 1560, and rose to eminence in the service of Queen Elizabeth, for the last ten years of whose reign he was English warden on the Border marches. He was present at her death-bed (1603), and in two and a half days galloped with the news to Edinburgh. Charles I., at his coronation, created him Earl of Monmouth, a title that became extinct on his death without issue, 12th April 1639. His Memoirs, the best edition of which is Scott's (Edin. 1808), are interesting from their notices of events connected with Border history.