Dame Mary Carew Pole, Lady Carew Pole,

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(''née'' Dawnay; born 1936) is a British courtier. She was born in 1936, the daughter of

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Ronald Dawnay (1908–1990) and Lady Elizabeth Grey (1908–1941), daughter of

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; through her father, she is the great-granddaughter of the 8th Viscount Downe and the 5th Marquess of Waterford, and a great-great-granddaughter of the 8th Duke of Beaufort.Charles Mosley (ed.), ''Burke's Peerage'' (2003), vol. 1, p. 1174. Dawnay was the journalist and politician

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's secretary from 1962 to 1966. In 1970,

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, appointed Dawnay to be a

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and she has remained as such since then. For her services, she was appointed a Commander of the

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in 2003 and promoted to Dame Commander in 2018."Carew Pole, Dame Mary, (Lady Carew Pole)"
''Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 6 June 2019.''The London Gazette''
24 April 1970 (issue 45087), p. 4655. In 1974, Dawnay married

Richard Carew Pole 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 f ...

, who succeeded his father as 13th

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in 1993.

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