Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Shapland Carew, 1st Baron Carew KP (March 9, 1787 , † June 2, 1856 ) was a British nobleman and politician.

Origin and education

Robert Carew was the only son of his father Robert Carew and his wife Anne Pigott. His father was an Anglo-Irish landowner who had been an MP in the Irish House of Commons since 1776 and in the British House of Commons from 1803 . Carew attended Eton College from 1799 to 1802 and studied at Christ Church College , Oxford in 1804 . Presumably he also studied at the University of Edinburgh from 1807 to 1808 .

Active as a member of the House of Commons

After his father withdrew from politics in 1807 because of his poor health, Carew ran successfully for the Irish County Wexford in the 1812 general election . In the House of Commons, Carew did not join any political direction, but remained an independent representative. From 1813 he was a staunch advocate of Catholic emancipation . In addition, he campaigned for other concerns of his Irish constituency, where he occasionally supported the government. When riots broke out in Wexford in 1816 , it was thanks to his mediation that these could be settled bloodlessly. The English administration in Dublin nevertheless regarded him as a political opponent and tried in vain to prevent his re-election in the general election in 1818. Even in the election of 1820, he was elected unchallenged. In the House of Commons, he now supported the oppositional Whigs against the government of Lord Liverpool , whose austerity and economic and tax policies he rejected. From 1822 he campaigned for an electoral reform . In the general election in 1826, he allied himself with the Protestant candidate James Stopford against the Whig candidate Arthur Chichester . For this Carew was sharply criticized by the Catholic press, but Chichester finally renounced his candidacy, so that Carew was re-elected unchallenged. He continued to campaign for Catholic emancipation, which was finally passed by parliament in 1829. After the death of his father in 1829, he renounced in 1830 for family reasons to run again, also in the election in May 1831. In September 1831 he was appointed first Lord Lieutenant for County Wexford. When there was a by-election in Wexford in the same month, Carew ran again and was elected unopposed.

The Woodstown House built by Carew

Elevation to Baron Carew and further life

As early as October 1831, he asked Prime Minister Lord Gray to be taken into account when creating new peer ratings , as his family had been politically active for 150 years. In the lower house election in 1832 he was re-elected. On June 13, 1834, he was raised to Baron Carew in the Peerage of Ireland . On July 9, 1838 he was raised to Baron Carew, of Castle Boro in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , which he also became a member of the House of Lords . On November 18, 1851, he was inducted into the Order of Saint Patrick .

Instead of an older property, Carew had Woodstown House near Waterford built in Regency style between 1820 and 1825 .

Family and offspring

On November 16, 1816, Carew had married Jane Catherine Cliffe , a daughter of Anthony Cliffe of New Ross . With her he had two sons and two daughters:

His eldest son Robert inherited his title.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Inventory of Architectural Heritage: Woodstown House, County Waterford. Retrieved June 10, 2017 .
predecessor Office successor
Recreate title Baron Carew
1834-1856 		Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew
personal data
SURNAME Carew, Robert, 1st Baron Carew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carew, Robert Shapland, 1st Baron Carew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1787
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1856