sentences:  Carey was a leading member of one of Guernsey's oldest families.In 1935, when incumbent Baliff Arthur William Bell died, Carey, who had been Receiver General from 1912 to 1935, replaced him because Procurer Ambrose Sherwill, to whom the role would have normally fallen, had only been in office a few weeks.He was born 2 July 1871 in Guernsey, son of de Vic Francis Carey and Harriet Mary Gosselin.