William Wilfred Carey - He10

b. 25 Aug 1856 - d. 18 Feb 1929

son of Carteret Priaulx Carey
and Martha Eliza McCrea

Married: 17 Aug 1880

Louisa Sophia Broadley Harrison

d. 27 Aug 1908

daughter of
Lieut. Gen. Broadley Harrison
and Julia Henrietta Erskine

Lieutenant, 1874, 1st Regiment, R.G.M.
Captain, 1875
A.D.C. Militia to the Lieut. Governor;
Major, 1879;
on unattached list, 1884;
Secretary to the British Commissioner of the Egyptian State Domains, 1881;
Inspector, State Domains, 1883;
Inspector-General, 1897;
served in the Intelligence Department under Sir Frederick Goldsmid, July to Sept. 1882;
present during the bombardment of Alexandria, 1882;
second Times War Correspondent during the campaign
(Egyptian Medal and Khedive's Bronze Star);
4th Class Osmanieh, 1886 and 3rd Class, 1903, also 3rd Class Medijie, 1893, for services to the Egyptian Government.
He resigned his appointment under that Government in 1909.

William Wilfred Carey

Educated at Elizabeth College, 1868-72 - College No. 1723.

During the Great War he was active in Scotland in raising several contingents for service in France, and commanded the Dunbar Home Guards up to its disbandment in Jan. 1919.

His remaining years were dedicated to that of collecting and publishing the Records of the Family of Carey of Guernsey. He died in 1929 regrettably before the completion of the book and left instructions in his will that the papers be handed to Mrs Edith Frances Carey (Hg9).

Due to her many other ties devoted to researching innumerable passages of Guernsey History, she too, died in 1935 after collating and adding much needed information to the Carey records.

The work was completed by Spencer Carey Curtis and published in 1938.