Sir Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover KB (ca. 1580 – 13 April 1666) of Hunsdon, Hertfordshire was an English peer and Member of Parliament.
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Life
Carey was the son of John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon. Cambridge University awarded him an honorary MA in 1607. He was knighted, as a Knight of the Bath (KB), on 3 June 1610.
He was elected MP for Sussex in 1609 and Hertfordshire in 1614.
Carey succeeded as 4th Baron Hunsdon on 17 April 1617. On 6 July 1621 he was created Viscount Rochford, a title previously held by his great-great-grandfather Thomas Boleyn, and on 8 March 1628 was created Earl of Dover. He acted as Speaker of the House of Lords in 1641, and was Colonel of the regiment of Oxford Scholars between 1644 and 1646.
In 1638, he sued a London merchant Humphrey Fox for abuse, after Fox had allegedly insulted Dover's livery, worn by a London waterman.
He served as a volunteer in the King's Lifeguard of Horse at the Battle of Edgehill and commanded a part-time garrison regiment known as the 'Regiment of Oxford Scholars' which was raised in April–May 1644 from 'scholars and strangers' at the University.