Carey, Henry (1687–1743)

English poet and musician. He wrote the song ‘Sally in Our Alley’. ‘God Save the King’ (both words and music) has also been attributed to him.

Carey was a pupil of Thomas Roseingrave and Francesco Geminiani. He wrote libretti for John Lampe's operas The Dragon of Wantley, Margery, and Amelia.

Works Stage ballad operas The Contrivances (1729), A Wonder, or the Honest Yorkshireman (1735), Nancy, or the Parting Lovers (1739), and others; songs for Vanbrugh and Cibber's The Provok'd Husband.

Other cantatas and songs to his own words.

Carey, Henry (Charles) (1793–1879)

US economist and publisher. He wrote about economics, publishing his Essay on the Rate of Wages (1935). He espoused laissez-faire economics in the 3-volume Principles of Political Economy (1837, 1838, 1840) and protectionism in Harmony of Interests: Manufacturing and Commercial (1851).

He was born in Philadelphia. Skipping college, he began working in business and by age 24 was a partner in his father's Baltimore publishing business, learning by reading manuscripts submitted for publication. He continued to write and publish regularly into the 1870s.