John Carey

John Carey LL.D. (1756–1826) was an Irish classical scholar. Life He was a brother of Mathew Carey and William Paulet Carey. At the age of 12 he was sent to finish his education in a French university. He spent some time in the United States about 1789, and then spent passed many years in London as a teacher of the classics, French, and shorthand. He died at Prospect Place, Lambeth, after a period of illness, on 8 December 1826, from a bladder stone. Works Carey was editor of the early numbers of the School Magazine, published by Richard Phillips, and a contributor to the Monthly Magazine and Gentleman's Magazine. He brought out: a new edition of John Dryden's Virgil in 1803, and again in 1819; two editions of Robert Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, and five of its abridgment; the Gradus ad Parnassum in 1824; the Latin Common Prayer in Samuel Bagster's polyglot edition; Ruperti Commentarius in Livium; and a revision of Johann Friedrich Schleusner's New Testament Lexicon (1826).