Henry Francis Cary, an English clergyman and writer, born in Birmingham, Dec. 6, 1772, died in London, Aug. 14, 1844. He early distinguished himself by an "Ode to Kosciusko" and a volume of odes and sonnets. At Oxford he devoted himself to the study of the modern European languages. In 1797 he was appointed vicar of Bromley Abbot's. His translation into blank verse of the Duina Commedia of Dante (1806-'14) gained him great celebrity. He also translated the "Birds" of Aristophanes, and some odes of Pindar. His continuation of Johnson's "Lives of the English Poets" from Johnson to Kirke White, and his "Lives of the early French Poets," are meritorious productions; the latter were published anonymously in the "London Magazine" and in a volume edited by his son, the Rev. Henry Cary, in 1846. From 1826 to 1832 he was assistant librarian of the British museum, and received a government pension of £200. He edited editions of Pope, Cowper, Milton, Thomson, and Young. He was buried in Westminster abbey, and his memoirs, by his son, with his literary journal and letters, were published in 1847.