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Richard Carew

(1555-1620) Translator and antiquary, a county gentleman of Cornwall, educated at Oxford, made a translation of the first five cantos of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1594), more correct than that of Fairfax. Other works were A Survey of Cornwall (1602), and an Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue (1605).

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