Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet (4 March 1902 – 26 January 1993) was a Cornish landowner, soldier and politician. He was Chairman of Cornwall County Council from 1952 to 1963 and

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from 1962 to 1977, briefly serving in both roles simultaneously. His name until 1926 was John Gawen Pole-Carew.

Early life

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John Gawen Carew Pole was the elder son of

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Sir Reginald Pole-Carew Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, (1 May 1849 – 19 September 1924) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 8th Division. Background and family Pole-Carew was the son of William Pole-Carew (1811–1888) by ...

(1849–1924), by his marriage to Lady Beatrice (1876–1952), a daughter of the James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde (1844–1919). Carew Pole was educated at

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and the

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.'CAREW POLE, Col. Sir John (Gawen)', in ''Who Was Who'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2008
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, December 2007. Retrieved 20 April 2012 In 1926, he changed his name by

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from John Gawen Pole-Carew to John Gawen Carew Pole. He was succeeded by his son

Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet Sir John Richard Walter Reginald Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, OBE, DL (born 2 December 1938) is the present holder of the Pole baronetcy, granted to his ancestor by King Charles I in 1628. He lives at Antony House in Cornwall. He succeeded his fa ...

Career

Carew Pole served in the Coldstream Guards from 1923 to 1939, during which time he served in

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during the Arab revolt, and commanded the 5th Battalion the

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(a Territorial Army unit) from 1939 to 1943, then commanded the 2nd Battalion the

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, from July 1944, during

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. He was Aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief in India in 1924–25 and a Gentleman of HM Bodyguard of the

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, from 1950 to 1972, and Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers for 1969–70. He was appointed a Knight of the

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(KStJ) in February 1972.

Personal life

On 12 June 1928, Carew Pole married Cynthia Mary Burns (d. 1977). She was the daughter of Walter Spencer Morgan Burns (1872–1929), a nephew of J. P. Morgan and grandson of Junius Spencer Morgan, both well-known American bankers, and Ruth Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck (1883–1978). Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of William George Cavendish-Bentinck and the great-granddaughter of The Rt. Hon.

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(1821–1891) and

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(d. 1896), who was the daughter of Col.

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(1769–1831). Together, they had one son and two daughters: * Elizabeth Mary Carew Pole (1929-2021), who married David Cuthbert Tudway Quilter (1921–2007), grandson of

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(1841–1911) and nephew of

Sir Cuthbert Quilter, 2nd Baronet Sir William Eley Cuthbert Quilter, 2nd Baronet (17 July 1873 – 18 September 1952) was an English Conservative Party politician. Quilter was the son of the Liberal politician Sir William Quilter, 1st Baronet (1841–1911). He was commissioned a ...

and Roger Quilter * Caroline Anne Carew Pole (b. 1933), who married Paul Asquith (1927–1984), the son of

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(b. 1938), who married Mary Dawnay (b. 1936) In 1979, after his first wife's death in 1977, Carew Pole married Joan Fulford, the widow of Lt-Colonel Anthony Fulford.

Paintings

In 1911, as a nine-year old, he had his portrait painted by

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showing Pole as a pageboy for

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's coronation on 22 June 11. In 1985, he had his portrait painted by

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, currently on loan to the National Trust, Antony.

References

External links

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