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Named after the Carew family, former owners of Biggin Grove house in the 16th and 17thCenturies. Sir Nicholas Carew (circa 1496 – March 3, 1539), was a courtier and diplomat during the reign of King Henry VIII. He had been a notable jouster, and a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber in the first 15 years of Henry’s reign and had strongly promoted the marriage of his cousin, Jane Seymour, to the King. He was also a cousin to another of the King’s wives Anne Boleyn. In 1531, as lord of manor of Beddington Park and neighbouring Carshalton, he entertained the monarch. However, he was executed for his alleged part in the Exeter Conspiracy, a supposed plot to overthrow the king, on the grounds that he had not reported the supposed plot.
