Robert Shapland Carew, 2nd Baron Carew KP (28 January 1818 – 9 September 1881) was an Irish

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in the

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from 1840 to 1847, and a member of the Irish and United Kingdom peerages. He was born in

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, the son of

Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew Robert Shapland Carew, 1st Baron Carew KP (9 March 1787 – 2 June 1856) was an Irish Whig Party politician and landowner. He was born in Dublin, the son of Robert Shapland Carew, also an MP and landowner, and his wife Anne (née Pigott). He wa ...

, and his wife Jane Catherine Cliffe. He was educated at his father's alma mater

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and Christ Church,

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. He married Emily Anne Philips, daughter of Sir George Richard Philips, 2nd Baronet, in 1844. They had two sons: * Robert Shapland George Julian Carew, 3rd Baron Carew (1860–1923) * George Patrick John Carew, 4th Baron Carew (1863–1926) He was

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Member of Parliament for Waterford County between 1840 and 1847. He was appointed

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for 1848. On his father's death he became the 2nd Baron Carew, in both the

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and the Peerage of the United Kingdom and also succeeded him as

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, a position he held until 1881. In 1872 he was made a knight of the

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References

*Kidd, Charles & Williamson, David (eds.) (1990) ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, *

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