Philadelphia Carey
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Philadelphia Carey (died 1654) was an English courtier.
Philadelphia Carey was a daughter of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth and Elizabeth Trevannion.
Namesake aunt[edit]
She was the niece of another "Philadelphia Carey" (1552–1627), who was a daughter of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Ann Morgan. She married Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton in 1584 and was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth. On the queen's death she passed her ring to her brother Robert Carey, who rode to Scotland to give it to James VI.[1][2][3]
Career[edit]
The younger Philadelphia Carey was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth.[4]
Her portrait appears in a picture of the family of the Earl of Monmouth in 1617 attributed to Paul van Somer and she was also painted by Anthony van Dyck. A version of the Van Dyck portrait, in different costume from the mezzotint, had the inscription "about the age of 44".[5]
King James stayed with her at Aske on 16 April 1617 on his way to Scotland, and at Wharton Hall on 8 August on his return.[6]
In June 1623 she travelled to The Hague to see Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, with Elizabeth, Lady Knollys, Isabella Smythe, Lady Hatton and her daughter Lady Purbeck. They sent a comic letter to Dudley Carleton, in the spirit of a masque, explaining their arrival deposited on the shore by Neptune, in hope of an introduction to the King and Queen of Bohemia.[7]
She died in 1654 and was buried at Easby, Richmondshire.[8]
Marriage and children[edit]
She married Sir Thomas Wharton of Aske Hall (d. 1622) in April 1611. George Calvert noted the financial settlement of £6000 from her father and an annual £1200 jointure.[9]
They had two sons:
- Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton (1613 - 1696). He married two times, with issue.
- Thomas Wharton (1615 - 1684). He married two times, with issue.
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Kristen S. Bundesen, 'Philadelphia Carey Scrope', Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Routledge, 2017), p. 521.
- ^ 'Philadelphia Carey', Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland
- ^ Kristen Bundesen, 'Philadelphia Carey Scrope: Keeper of the Scottish King James's Sapphire Ring'
- ^ Nadine Akkerman, Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia: 1603-1631, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2015), p. 77.
- ^ Oliver Miller, 'Philip, Lord Wharton, and His Collection of Portraits', Burlington Magazine, 136:1097 (August 1994), pp. 517-530, 526, 528.
- ^ HMC Downshire, vol. 6 (London, 1995), pp. 140-1.
- ^ Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic James: 1619-1623 (London, 1858), p. 596: Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth of Bohemia (London, 1909), pp. 217-8: Samuel Richardson, The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe, vol. 1 (London, 1740), p. 169.
- ^ Bryan Dale, The Good Lord Wharton (London, 1906), p. 31
- ^ Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, The Court and Times of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1848), p. 110.