Reginald Pole-Carew (officer)

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Lieutenant General Reginald Pole-Carew. Caricature from 1901

Sir Reginald Pole-Carew KCB CVO (born May 1, 1849 in Antony , Cornwall , † September 19, 1924 ) was a British nobleman, officer and politician. In the British colonial wars of the 19th century, he rose to the position of highly decorated division commander. After retiring from the military, he was elected to the House of Commons .

Origin and career as a military

Reginald Pole-Carew came from the family Pole Carew of Antony House , one of the leading families of the gentry of Cornwall . He was the eldest son of William Pole-Carew and his wife Anne Buller. He attended Eton College and then studied at Christ Church College , Oxford . In 1869 he joined the Coldstream Guards as an ensign and made a brilliant military career over the next few years. From 1876 to 1877 he was the private secretary of Hercules Robinson , the governor of New South Wales , then from 1878 to 1879 aide-de-camp of Lord Lytton , the viceroy of India. Under Frederick Roberts he served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1879 to 1880 , where he took part in the march to Kandahar . In 1881 he served in South Africa and in 1882 during the occupation of Egypt under the Duke of Connaught . From 1884 to 1890 he served as secretary to Frederick Roberts in India, who was Commander-in-Chief of the British troops there from 1885. From 1886 to 1887 Pole-Carew fought in the Second Burmese-English War , for which he was awarded the Order of the Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1887 . In 1895 he became the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. In the Second Boer War , he commanded the 9th Brigade from 1899, with which he took part in the Battle of Modder River , and then the Guard Brigade . Mentioned twice in Despatches , he was named Knight Commander of the Bath in 1900 and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1901 . As a major general, he was then commander of the 11th Division in South Africa. From 1903 to 1905 Pole-Carew was in command of the 8th Division. With this he was stationed in Ireland before he took his leave as lieutenant general in 1906. When the First World War broke out in 1914, he volunteered and was appointed Inspector General of the Territorial Army . After a serious riding accident, he finally retired from military service in 1915.

Political career

Pole-Carew had received numerous other medals for his achievements, including the Egyptian Mecidiye Order 4th Class in 1882 . After retiring from the military, he ran in vain in the general election of 1906 as a candidate for the Conservative Party in Pembroke Boroughs and in the January 1910 election in Bodmin . In the general election of December 1910, however, he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Unionist Party for Bodmin. In 1916 he resigned from his mandate. He had also become Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall.

Beatrice Pole-Carew, the wife of Reginald Pole-Carew. Photography from the 1890s

Renovations by Antony House

After the death of his father in 1888, Pole-Carew inherited the family estate Antony House in Cornwall and the property belonging to it. At the turn of the century he had Antony House extended by an eastern extension based on the model of Trerice , to which he laid a large, walled formal garden on the north side of the house .

Family and offspring

In 1901 Pole Carew had married Beatrice Butler (1876-1952), the eldest daughter of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde and his wife Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor. With her he had two sons and two daughters:

  • John Carew Pole (1902-1993)
  • Marye Frances Pole-Carew
  • Victoria Geraldine Pole-Carew
  • Patrick William Butler Pole-Carew (1913–1971)

literature

  • CAREW, Lt-Gen. Sir Reginald Pole. In: Who Was Who, online edn , Oxford University Press, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 37
  2. ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 38
  3. ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Pole-Carew, Reginald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pole-Carew, Sir Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman, officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Antony (Cornwall)
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1924