Education
Carey was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Keble College, Oxford.
Carey was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Keble College, Oxford.
He was ordained in 1939. After a curacy at Street John's Waterloo Road he became chaplain of Ripon College Cuddesdon. After a short time as a mission priest in Gambia he became Rector of Hunsdon and then Botley.
He was the Archdeacon of Ely from 1962 to 1970 and then Dean of Ely until 1982.