CAREY, HENRY (d. , English poet and musician, re puted to be an illegitimate son of George Savile, marquess of Halifax, was born towards the end of the 17th century. Carey studied under Olaus Linnert, Roseingrave and Geminiani. He wrote the words and music of The Contrivances; or More Ways than One, a farce produced at Drury Lane in His Hanging and Marriage; or the Dead Man's Wedding was acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1722. Chrononhotonthologos (1734) was a success ful burlesque of the bombast of the contemporary stage. The best of his other pieces were A Wonder; or the Honest Yorkshire man (1735), a ballad opera, and the Dragon of Wantley 0737), a burlesque opera, the music of which was by J. F. Lampe. Carey is best remembered by his songs. "Sally in our Alley" (printed in his Musical Century) was a sketch drawn after following a shoe maker's 'prentice and his sweetheart on a holiday. The present tune set to these words, however, Is not the one written by Carey, but is borrowed from an earlier song, "The Country Lasse," which is printed in The Merry Musician (vol. c. 1716). It has been claimed for him that he was the author of "God Save the King" (see NATIONAL ANTHEMS). He died in London on Oct. 4 1743. Edmund Kean, the tragedian, was one of his great grandchildren.
For a complete edition of his poems see Poems on Several Oc casions (1729). His dramatic works were published by subscrip tion in