CAREY, Henry, a humorous poet and musical composer, was an illegitimate son of George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, and was born about the end of the seventeenth century. He studied music under Lennert, Roseingrave, and Geminiani, but never attained to excellence in the higher departments of composition. His ballads and songs, however, were exceedingly popular at the time. He wrote several dramatic pieces for Covent Garden theatre, among which may be mentioned a burlesque tragedy called Chrononhontologos; a farce called the Honest Yorkshireman; two interludes, called Nancy and Thomas and Sally; and two burlesque operas, called The Dragon and Margery or the Dragoness. His songs were collected and published by himself in a work called The Musical Century; and the tune of one of them, beginning "Of all the girls that are so smart," still survives in the popular air of Sally in our Alley. Carey, who seems to have been of an amiable but exceedingly irritable disposition, put an end to his life in 1744, probably in a fit of despondency caused by the malicious attacks of rival composers.