James Laurence Carew

James Laurence Carew
Carew in 1898.
Member of Parliament for South Meath
In office 1900–1903
Preceded by	John Howard Parnell
Succeeded by	David Sheehy
Member of Parliament for Dublin College Green
In office 1896–1900
Preceded by	J. E. Kenny
Succeeded by	Joseph Patrick Nannetti
Member of Parliament for North Kildare
In office 1885–1892
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Patrick James Kennedy
Personal details
Born	1853
Died	31 August 1903 (aged 50) St. Moritz, Switzerland
Political party	Independent Nationalist
Other political affiliations	Irish National League Irish Parliamentary Party
Education	St Stanislaus College Clongowes Wood College
Alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin

James Laurence Carew (1853 – 31 August 1903) was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. A member of the Irish Parliamentary Party and later a Parnellite, he was MP for North Kildare from 1885 to 1892, for Dublin College Green 1896–1900 and for South Meath from 1900 until his death in 1903.

Youngest son of Laurence Carew of Kildangan, Kinnegad, (then Co. Meath), Co Westmeath and Anne, older daughter of Garrett Robinson of Kilrainy, Co. Kildare, he was educated at the Jesuit St Stanislaus' and Clongowes Wood Colleges and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1873. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, London, in July 1874, and then practised as an equity draftsman and conveyancer.

He was elected to Parliament for North Kildare in the Irish Parliamentary Party landslide in the 1885 general election by a large majority over the Conservative candidate, and returned unopposed in the election of the following year. He assisted J. J. Clancy in running the Irish Press Agency in London. During the Land War, in February 1889, he was prosecuted for a speech calling for the boycott of the Earl of Drogheda. Following his arrest, in Perthshire, Scotland, while campaigning in support of a Liberal by-election candidate, he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and confined in Kilkenny, and later Kilmainham Gaols.