Background
A county gentleman of Cornwall, the eldest son of Thomas Carew, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he was a contemporary of Sir Philip Sidney and William Camden, and then at the Middle Temple.
A county gentleman of Cornwall, the eldest son of Thomas Carew, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he was a contemporary of Sir Philip Sidney and William Camden, and then at the Middle Temple.
Richard Carew made a translation of the first five cantos of Tasso"s Jerusalem Delivered (1594), which was more correct than that of Edward Fairfax. He also translated Juan de la Huarte"s Examen de Ingenios, basing his translation on Camillo Camilli"s Italian version. (This book is the first systematic attempt to relate physiology with psychology, though based on the medicine of Galen) Later editions were published in 1723, 1769 and 1811, and Davies Gilbert published an index in his Cornwall, volunteer
4, pp. 381–92. He also published an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue (1605). Carew served as High Sheriff of Cornwall (1583 and 1586), and as Member of Parliament for Saltash in 1584.