Henry Cary (12 February 1804 – 30 June 1870) was a barrister, classical scholar, Anglican clergyman, and early District Court Judge in the Colony of New South Wales.
She was the daughter of James Wilmot Ormsby of Foxford, co. Mayo, and Sandymount, Dublin, and his wife Jane DeGualy.
Cary was educated at Merchant Taylors' School from which he graduated on 5 April 1821 and was admitted to Worcester College, Oxford where he completed his own prose translation of Homer's Odyssey.
Dawson, Esq, of Yorkshire and Brompton Square (who died 1 May 1832) and his wife Elmira, of Sloane St, Chelsea.
Profoundly affected with depression by the death of his mother in 1832, he retired from legal practice and the next year took Holy Orders.
Henry Cary's biography of his father says that Cardinal Newman was an "intimate friend of his (the son) when they both had livings in Oxford".
In 1849, leaving his family to follow, Cary left for Sydney in the colony of New South Wales where he was welcomed and licensed by Bishop William Broughton who helped him set up a classical school.
Among his pupils were the future well known figures: Sir James Reading Fairfax, James William Johnson, Fitzwilliam Wentworth, Henry Cary Dangar, Alexander Oliver, Sir Philip Sydney Jones, Randolph and Fred Want, and William Abbott Hirst, a District Court Judge in Queensland.
He was regarded as the best classical scholar in Australia and was on intimate terms with Bishop Broughton who coached the boys in Greek when Mr Cary was unable to take the class.
Cary remained at Darling Point until May 1851, and then ran a school for young men at the Windsor Barracks for four years.
From November 1859, for five years, Cary lived at "Arborfield Lodge", on about 17 acres (69,000 m2) of land two miles (3 km) from Liverpool, New South Wales.
In 1861 he edited "A Collection of Statutes Affecting New South Wales", the first such compilation of Acts of "practical utility" for the Colony, and a work that is still sometimes of use.
Her headstone, still extant in the Liverpool pioneer cemetery, reads: "To the memory of Isabella, wife of Henry Cary, District Court Judge, who died 19th November, 1862 aged 51 years."
Cary continued to write on both law and the classics while pursuing his career until poor health forced his retirement in August 1869.
He died at his home in Philip Street, Sydney[1] at the age of 66 years, leaving two sons, Henry, who worked for HM Customs, and William, the barrister.
According to Cary's will, dated 19 May 1870 and addressed as 164 Philip St., Sydney, all real and personal property went to his two sons who were also named as executors.
Cary's reputation was that he was a man of rare learning spiced with a sense of humour; kindly, industrious and careful in all his undertakings.