George Patrick John Carew, 4th Baron Carew (1 February 1863 – 21 April 1926), was an

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Early life and education

Carew was the younger son of

Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew Robert Shapland Carew, 2nd Baron Carew (28 January 1818 – 9 September 1881), was an Irish Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1840 to 1847 and a hereditary peer in the peerages of Ireland and the United Kingdom. ...

, and his wife Emily Anne Philips, daughter of

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. He was educated at

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and

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Later life

Carew succeeded to the Carew baronies and to a seat in the

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upon the death of his childless elder brother

Robert Carew, 3rd Baron Carew Robert Shapland George Julian Carew, 3rd Baron Carew (15 June 1860 – 29 April 1923), was an Anglo-Irish hereditary peer. Early life and education Carew was born in Dublin, the elder son of Robert Shapland Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, and his wife ...

, in 1923.

Marriage

Carew married Maud Beatrice Ramsay on 5 October 1888. They had no children.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, vol. 1, p. 681.

Death

Lord Carew died in April 1926 at the age of 63. As he had no son, he was succeeded in the baronies by his first cousin,

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Notes

References

*Kidd, Charles & Williamson, David (eds.) (1990) ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, * 1863 births 1926 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge 4 Younger sons of barons {{UK-baron-stub