Richard Carew Pole

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Sir John Richard Walter Reginald Carew Pole, 13th Baronet OBE (born December 2, 1938 ) is a British nobleman. His nickname is his middle first name Richard .

Life

Richard Carew Pole is the eldest son of Sir John Carew Pole, 12th Baronet , and his wife, Cynthia Mary Burns . He attended Eton College before joining the British Army in 1958 and serving with the Coldstream Guards . In 1963 he retired as a lieutenant from the army and studied at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester , where he graduated in 1967 as MRICS . He then worked as a chartered surveyor for a real estate company until 1972 . He then became a board member and later also chairman of various companies, associations or authorities such as the Devon and Cornwall Police Authority and the Eden Project . In addition, Carew Pole took over the management of the property of the Carew Pole family. In 1983 his father gave him the right to live in the family seat of Antony House , which is owned by the National Trust . Together with his wife, Carew Pole had parts of the garden of Antony House remodeled. After his father's death in 1993, he inherited the title of Baronet , of Shute House in the County of Devon, and the family's lands. From 1973 to 1993 he was a member of Cornwall County Council , where he also chaired several committees. In 1979 he served as High Sheriff of Cornwall and since 1988 he has been Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall. To this end, Carew Pole was involved in numerous institutions, associations and organizations. Among other things, he was Governor of the Seale Hayne Agricultural College near Newton Abbot from 1979 to 1989 , Governor of Plymouth College from 1985 to 1996 and President of the Royal Horticultural Society from 2001 to 2006 . In 2006 he was Prime Warden for the Fishmongers Company in London . For his services he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.

Richard Carew Pole had this fountain built in the garden of Antony House

Marriages and offspring

Carew Pole's first marriage was Victoria Lever , a daughter of Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme and Margaret Ann Moon . The marriage was divorced in 1974. In 1974 Carew Pole married Mary Dawnay, a daughter of Ronald Dawnay and Elizabeth Gray, in 1974. He has two sons with her, including

  • Tremayne John Carew Pole (* 1974) ⚭ Charlotte Watkins

Carew Pole's second wife serves as the lady-in-waiting to Princess Anne and was named Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2003.

literature

  • CAREW POLE, Col Sir John (Gawen). 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. 26.
  2. ^ The National Trust: Antony, Cornwall . The National Trust 2010. ISBN 978-1-84359-015-6 , p. 40.
predecessor Office successor
John Carew Pole Pole Baronet, of Shute House
1993 – present 		current title holder
personal data
SURNAME Carew Pole, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carew Pole, Sir John Richard Walter Reginald, 13th Baronet (full name); Pole Carew, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1938