William Carey

Life
1759-1839; author of The Nettle, an Irish Bouquet, to tickle the Nose of an English Viceroy ... addressed to the Marquis of Grimbaldo (Buckingham) ... with A Prophecy ... and The Triumph of Freedom ... addressed to Henry Grattan by (Scriblerus Murtough O’Pindar) ... 1789; other satires; O’Donoghue calls him ‘a remarkable man’ who worked as an engraver and then a printer, and promoted Irish sculptors; br. of Matthew Carey [supra]; auth. of Irish Hudibrastic poems, all published in Philadelphia where he lived. ODNB PI