Poet, playwright, and possibly an illegitimate child of the Marquess of Halifax, Carey's poetry introduced the term 'namby-pamby' to the language (as a satirical term for his rival Ambrose Philips), and he also wrote the celebrated ditty 'Sally In Our Alley'. He may have been the author of 'God Save The King', and seems to have been the first to sing it. Occasionally he ran into trouble over his anti-Walpolean politics. When his son Carew died, he hanged himself later the same year at the age of 56.
Poet, playwright, and possibly an illegitimate child of the Marquess of Halifax, Carey's poetry introduced the term 'namby-pamby' to the language (as a satirical term for his rival Ambrose Philips), and he also wrote the celebrated ditty 'Sally In Our Alley'. He may have been the author of 'God Save The King', and seems to have been the first to sing it. Occasionally he ran into trouble over his anti-Walpolean politics. When his son Carew died, he hanged himself later the same year at the age of 56.
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