Reginald Pole-Carew (politician, 1753)

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Reginald Pole-Carew ( July 28, 1753 - January 3, 1835 ) was a British politician who was elected six times as a member of the House of Commons .

Origin, youth and heritage

Reginald Pole-Carew was born as the eldest son of Reginald Pole and Anne Buller . His father came from a sideline of the Pole family , a Gentry family of Devon , Sir John Pole, 3rd Baronet was his great grandfather. Through his mother he was a great-grandson of John Carew, 3rd Baronet of Antony . One of his siblings was the future Admiral Sir Charles Pole . Pole grew up in Stoke Damerel , Devon and attended Winchester College . After the death of his father in 1769 he inherited his property. 1771 studied Pole at Oxford University College . In 1772 he inherited after the childless death of another John Carew according to the will of Coventry Carew, who died in 1748, Antony House in Cornwall and the property of the Carew von Antony family. As heir to Antony, who is on the opposite bank of the Tamar from Stoke Damerel , Pole changed its name to Pole-Carew. In 1773 he set off on a grand tour of France. Apparently he did not return to Great Britain until 1781.

Political activity

Member of the House of Commons

In December 1782 Pole-Carew was elected in a by-election as a member of Parliament for the Borough of Penryn , presumably he was supported by Sir Francis Basset . For the next few years he apparently supported the opposition to the Whig governments in the House of Commons . In the general election in 1784, he did not run again. In 1787, however, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Reigate , apparently with the support of the Earl of Hardwicke , an uncle of his wife. He hardly appeared as a member of parliament, but he now supported the government of William Pitt the Younger . In the general election in 1790 he did not run again for Reigate, but was instead elected as a member of Parliament for Lostwithiel thanks to the support of his relative George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe . Although he continued to support the Pitt government and was a member of several committees, otherwise he hardly appeared as an MP. Politically, he was extremely conservative as an opponent of the French Revolution , the abolition of the slave trade and the mutiny at Spithead . Although Pole-Carew felt superfluous because of its minor political importance, he was elected as MP for Fowey in the 1796 general election thanks to the support of Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe . Again he made little appearance until Pitt appointed him auditor on May 17, 1799, whereupon Pole-Carew resigned from his mandate.

Promotion to undersecretary and member of the Privy Council

When Pole-Carew's friend Henry Addington succeeded Pitt's Prime Minister in 1801, Pole-Carew resigned as auditor and ran for Fowey again to support Addington's government. With the support of the Rashleigh family , he was re-elected in the 1802 general election, and Addington rewarded his support by making him Under Secretary of State in the Home Office in August 1803 . So he was Home Secretary Charles Philip Yorke , a cousin of his wife, subordinate to. In this office he remained responsible for Ireland and for the defense of Great Britain until he resigned with Addington in May 1804. After Pitt had become prime minister again, Pole-Carew supported the opposition. Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and a brother of Charles Yorke, wanted to get him an office in Ireland, but Carew-Pole feared that Pitt would prevent this. In addition, his wife fell ill and died in July 1804, after which he initially wanted to look after his underage children. After Addington had reconciled with Pitt and was raised to Viscount , Carew-Pole was also rewarded on January 14, 1805 with the admission to the Privy Council .

End of political career

After Pitt's death in early 1806, Pole-Carew occasionally supported the Grenville government , but often did not attend House of Commons meetings because of his family. In the next few years he only appeared occasionally. Since William Rashleigh ran for Fowey in the general election, Carew-Pole was re-elected for Lostwithiel with the support of the Earl of Edgecumbe. Now, however, he mostly unobtrusively supported the government of Lord Liverpool , and as a supporter of the Corn Laws and opponent of Catholic emancipation, he continued to vote resolutely conservative. In March 1816, he resigned so that William Edgcumbe , the heir to the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , who had just come of age , could run for MP. Pole-Carew withdrew from politics. He remained a Fowey recorder until 1819, a position he had taken over in 1813.

Reginald Pole-Carew had the garden redesigned by Antony based on a design by Humphry Repton

Expansion of Antony

In addition to his political activities, of which he was often not very convinced, Pole-Carew devoted himself to expanding his possessions around Antony. Opposite the increasingly important naval base Plymouth Dock , he had the Torpoint settlement built on his property , which was connected to Plymouth Dock by ferry from 1790. In 1792 he commissioned the garden architect Humphry Repton to draft a plan for the transformation of the formal garden of Antony House into a landscape garden , which Pole-Carew only had partially implemented. After 1808 he had the ground floor of Antony House remodeled. From 1788 Pole-Carew was also a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Marriage and offspring

Pole-Carew had married Jemina Yorke, the only child of John Yorke and Elizabeth Lygon, on November 18, 1784. With her he had two sons and seven daughters, including:

  • Harriet Pole-Carew († 1877) ∞ John Eliot, 1st Earl of St. Germans
  • Charlotte Jemima Pole-Carew ∞ Charles Garth Colleton
  • Amabel Pole-Carew († 1871) ∞ Francis Glanville
  • Joseph Pole-Carew (1787-1852)
  1. ∞ Caroline Ellis
  2. ∞ Susanna Frances Cadogan
  • Agneta Pole-Carew (1791–1836) ∞ Thomas Somers Cocks

After the death of his wife in 1804, Pole-Carew married Caroline Anne Lyttelton, a daughter of William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton and Caroline Bristow, on May 4, 1808 . With her he had two sons and two daughters, including:

  • Frances Antonia Pole-Carew († 1889) ∞ Joseph Yorke
  • William Pole-Carew (1811-1888)
  • Gerald Pole-Carew (1815–1845) ∞ Harriet Buller

His first heir was his eldest son Joseph. After he died in 1852 without male descendants, William Pole-Carew , his eldest son from his second marriage , inherited Antony.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 35
  2. ^ History of Parliament Online: EDGCUMBE, William Richard, Visct. Valletort (1794-1818), of Mount Edgcumbe, Cornw. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Cornwall & Scilly Urban Survey - Historic characterization for regeneration: Torpoint (PDF; 2.8 MB). Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
  4. ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 37
  5. ^ The Royal Society - Fellow Details. Retrieved May 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Pole-Carew, Reginald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pole, Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1753
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1835