fell in with the French squadron, was surrounded, and captured an obstinate resistance (James, Naval History, 1860, iii. Hallowell was vary shortly afterwards released on parole, and on 18 Aug. was tried at Port Mahon by a Court-martial, which approved of his conduct in every respect, pronounced that his leaving the convoy was dictated by sound judgment and zeal for the service of his king and country, that the defence of the Swiftsure was meritorious, that her loss was unavoidable, and that Hallowell had displayed great judgment in his endeavours to avoid so superior a force. He was therefore honourably acquitted of all blame.
In 1802 Hallowell commanded the Argo of 44 guns on the coast of Africa, with a broad pennant, and touching at Barbadoes on his return to Europe, an learning there that war had again broken out, he placed his services at the disposal of Commodore Sir Samuel Hood, then commanding-in-chief on the Leeward Island station. He was thus in the reduction of St. Lucia and Tobago in June 1803, and was warmly thanked Hood in his despatches. On his return to England he was sent out, still in the Argo, on a special mission to Aboukir. He was afterwards appointed to the Tigre, in which he joined the the fleet off Toulon under lord Nelson, and under his command took part in the chase of the French fleet to the West Indies in May and June 1806. In September the Tigre was with the fleet off Cadiz, but was one of the ships detached to Gibraltar under rear-admiral Louis on 30 Oct., and had thus no share in the battle of Trafalgar. Continuing in the Tigre, Hallowell in 1807 the command of the naval art of the expedition to Alexandria; he afterwards was with the fleet off Toulon and on the coast of Spain till his advancement to flag rank on 1 Aug. 1811. In January 1812 he hoisted his flag on board the Malta of 80 guns, again in the Mediterranean, where he remained till the peace. In June 1815 he was made a K.C.B. During 1816-18 he was commander-in-chief on the coast of Ireland, and became vice-admiral on 12 Aug. 1819. From 1821 to 1824 he was commander-in-chief at the Nora, with his dag in the Prince Regent. On the death of his cousin, Mrs. Anne Paston Gee (28 March 1828), he succeeded to the estates of the Carews of Beddington, and pursuant to her will assumed the name and arms of Carew, to which family, however, he was not in an degree related. The estates had come to Mrs. Gee by the will of her husband’s brother, and now came to Hallowell very much in the nature of a windfall; but to a friend who congratulated him on it he answered, ‘Half as much twenty years ago had indeed been a blessing; but I am now old and crank’ On 22 July 1830 he attained the rank of admiral, and on 6 June 1831 was made G.G.B. He died at Beddington Park on 2 Sept. 1834.
Hallowell is traditionally described as having been a man of gigantic frame and vast personal strength, and several stories are to of the summary manner in which he, by arm and fist, quelled some symptoms of mutiny which appeared on board the Swiftsure while off Cadiz. He married in February 1800 a daughter of Captain John Nicholson Inglefield, for many years commissioner of the navy at Gibraltar, and left issue.
[Marshall's Roy. Nav. Biog, ii. (vol. i. pt. ii.) 465 ; Gent. Mag. (1834), vol. civ. pt. ii. p. 537; United Sarvice Journal, 1834, pt. iii. 874, and 1835, pt. i. 95.]
CAREW, Sir EDMUND (1464–1513), soldier, was the son of Sir Nicholas Carew, baron Carew, of Mohuns Ottery, Devonshire, who died on 18 Nov. 1470, and grandson of Sir John Carew [q.v.] The inquisition on his father's death states that Edmund was six years old at the time. According to old pedigrees the family was descended from one Adam de Montgomerie, whose son Edmund married the daughter of Ress ap Tudor, prince of South Wales. Her sister Nuts, after having a natural son by Henry I, married a Norman named Stephen, whose son, Robert. Fitz-Stephen, was one of the first English invaders of Ireland, and obtained a grant of half the kingdom of Cork from Henry II. Adam's great-great-grandson, William, baron of Carew, married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Robert Fits-Stephen. It was, however, been shown by Sir John Maclean that Robert Fits-Stephen died without issue, and that William, baron of Carew or de Carrio, was descended from Gerald Fitz-Walter de Windsor, first husband of Nesta. This Gerald was grandson of one Otho de Windsor in the time of the Conqueror.
The barony and castle of Carew or Caer Yw in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, came to the family by this marriage with the Welsh princess, and remained in their possession until Sir Edmund mortgaged it to Sir Rhys ap Thomas. His son, Griffith ap Rhys, being attainted of treason in the reign of Henry VIII, the baron came into the possession of the crown, and was leased to Sir John Parrot and others. In the reign of Charles I the remainder of the lease was purchased by Sir John Carew and the fee-simple was upon granted to him by the king. The family
