John Carew Pole

Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet (born March 4, 1902 in London , † January 26, 1993 in St Germans ) was a British officer and nobleman.

Origin and military career

John Carew Pole was born as John Pole-Carew as the eldest son of Sir Reginald Pole-Carew and his wife Beatrice Pole-Carew. He attended Eton College and then embarked on an officer career. He graduated from the Royal Military College Sandhurst and served from 1923 in the Coldstream Guards , where his father had already served as an officer. From 1924 to 1925 he was aide-de-camp of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces in India, and later served in the same capacity in South Africa and Palestine . In 1939 he retired from active service. At the beginning of the Second World War he became the commander of the 5th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry , a unit of the Territorial Army . In 1944 he became commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment , with which he took part in the Normandy landing in June 1944 . Then he advanced with the battalion through France, Belgium and the Netherlands to Germany. He was named in Despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1944 for his achievements . As a colonel, Carew Pole then served in the Second Army until the end of the war . After the war he retired from active service in 1945 and was honorary colonel of various units of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry until 1967 . In 1946 he received the Territorial Decoration . From 1950 to 1972 he was a member of the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms , including standard bearer since 1968.

The family seat Antony House was given to the National Trust in 1961 by John Carew Pole Carew

Further life

From 1956 to 1972 Carew Pole was director of Lloyd's Bank for Devon and Cornwall , he was also a board member of English China Clays from 1969 to 1973 , of Keith Prowse in 1969 and of Westward Television from 1960 to 1972 . After his father's death in 1924, he inherited Antony House and the family's property. Furthermore, after the death of his fifth cousin Frederick de la Pole in February 1926 , he inherited Old and New Shute House in Devonshire and the title Baronet , of Shute House in the County of Devon, which is why he changed his name to Carew Pole on May 28, 1926 changed. From New Shute House he had the famous library and numerous family portraits of the Pole family brought to Antony House. In 1928 Carew Pole married Cynthia Mary Burns , a great niece of the American banker JP Morgan . She inherited furniture, Chinese porcelain and paintings, which she also brought to Antony. In 1939 Carew Pole was Justice of the Peace , from 1947 to 1948 he was High Sheriff , from 1947 Deputy Lieutenant and from 1962 to 1977 Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall. From 1946 to 1962 he was a member of the Cornwall County Council , including chairman from 1950. From 1952 to 1968 he was a member of the Council of the Prince of Wales , in addition to which he took on several other offices and functions. From 1969 to 1970 he was guild master of the London Worshipful Company of Fishmongers . 1979 awarded him the University of Exeter , the honorary doctorate . After the Second World War , Carew Pole had the extension of Antony House built by his father at the turn of the century demolished, the house modernized and the gardens simplified. In 1959 he had already given Old Shute House to the National Trust , in 1961 he also handed over Antony House with the garden to the National Trust. However, he retained the right to live in the manor house for himself and his family. New Shute House, which had been used as a girls' school since 1933, was sold in 1974. In 1983 Carew Pole moved to a smaller house in Cornwall and left it to his son Richard Antony .

Family and offspring

From his marriage to Cynthia Mary Burns, a daughter of Walter Spencer Morgan Burns , Carew Pole had a son and two daughters:

• Elizabeth Carew Pole (born 1929)
• Caroline Carew Pole (* 1933)
• Sir Richard Antony Carew Pole, 13th Baronet (born 1938)

After the death of his wife in 1977 he married Joan Fulford, the widow of Anthony Fulford from Dunsford in Devon , in 1979 .

literature

• CAREW POLE, Col Sir John (Gawen). In: Who Was Who, online edn , Oxford University Press, 2014

Web links

• Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed May 12, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 40
2. ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 40

predecessor	Office	successor
Frederick de la Pole	Pole Baronet, of Shute House 1926–1993	Richard Carew Pole