Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . GEORGE u. THOMAS CARR was of a family that had notonly lived in affluence and respectability, but hadmade a considerable figure in the world; his fatherlived in the parish of St. Pauls, Covent-garden,and his mother was living at the time of her sonsmisfortune; he was well educated, and when fitfor business, articled to a Mr. Walker, in Princes-street, near Covent-garden, a scrivener, or notary-public, in the aforesaid pa
Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . GEORGE u. THOMAS CARR was of a family that had notonly lived in affluence and respectability, but hadmade a considerable figure in the world; his fatherlived in the parish of St. Pauls, Covent-garden,and his mother was living at the time of her sonsmisfortune; he was well educated, and when fitfor business, articled to a Mr. Walker, in Princes-street, near Covent-garden, a scrivener, or notary-public, in the aforesaid parish; this and his fathersinterest therein, procured him the place of vestry-clerk, which he possessed for some years, and mighthave lived very handsomely thereupon. The first, and indeed the principal cause of hismisfortunes, was a strong inclination to a voluptuouslife ; if he would have been content with a moderatesubsistence, his business would very well have af-forded it, without his having recourse to irregularpractices; but having taken it into his head to livelike a man of pleasure, he was forced to strike outof the ordinary road of life, to accomplish his pur-. I Executed at Tvbiir:iil737.) :>^w YOKKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOfl, LJKNOJC ANBI1LDEN FOUNDATIONS* GEORGE IT.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. 167 pose. His first deviations from honesty were inthe affairs of the parish ; these were not found outimmediately, and when they were discovered, com-passion to him, and respect to his family, preservedhim in that employment, until his conduct, whichgrew worse and worse, was at last so bad, that hewas removed from his office; and thereupon brokeup house-keeping, and took chambers in the the time he lived in Bridges-street he usedto manage business at the Old Bailey, and wasparticularly concerned in the appeal against Clough,for the murder of his fellow-servant, at the GreenLettuce, in Holborn ; who was executed thereupon,though he had been acquitted on a trial, at the sui
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