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JOHN CAREY (1797 - 1880) Extract from notes by his son HERBERT SIMON CAREY on the life of LOUIS MICHAEL SIMON - Herbert's maternal grandfather. "............ in the same period, he would have formed that friendship with John Carey that was to play an important part in the lives of both of them. They may have met on the Stock Exchange of which John Carey had become a Member, probably in 1821. In 1825, John Carey, at that time a widower with three young children, went to live at New Cross, then a pleasant village between Blackheath and London, and the relations between the two families evidently grew intimate, for, when he emigrated to America with his Mother, his children and his brother in 1830, John Simon (later to become Sir John Simon K.C.B.) aged 14, stood in tears with his governess at Gravesend to see the ship sail. John Carey was then a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a Botanist of repute" John Carey returned to the UK in 1852. |