Sir John Richard Walter Reginald Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, OBE, DL (2 December 1938 – 1 December 2024) was a British aristocrat who was a holder of the Pole baronetcy, granted to his ancestor by King Charles I in 1628. He lived at Antony House in Cornwall, and succeeded his father, Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet, in 1993.
Biography
Carew Pole was a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Cornwall, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, the Pilgrim Trust, and the Eden Project, a Governor of Gresham's School, Holt, and President of the Cornwall Gardens Trust.
He was High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1978 and was a past Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers and a past president of the Royal Horticultural Society, from which he received the Victoria Medal of Honour in 2007.
In 1974 he married Mary Dawnay, a Lady-in-Waiting to Anne, Princess Royal, who served as President of the Royal Cornwall Show. They had two sons:
- Sir Tremayne John Carew Pole, 14th Baronet (b. 1974), who married Charlotte Louise Campbell Watkins and had issue.
- John Alexander George Carew Pole (b. 1975), who married Rebecca Wood in 2003 and had issue.
Sir Richard Carew Pole died at home in Cornwall, on 1 December 2024, one day shy of his 86th birthday.
References
- Who Was Who 2003 (London: A. & C. Black)
- BBC Cornwall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17586465
- "Sir Richard Carew Pole". The Times. 4 December 2024. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
External links
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
- Sir Richard Carew Pole at the Royal Horticultural Society
- Antony House at the National Trust
| Baronetage of England | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byJohn Carew Pole | Baronet (of Shute House) 1993–2024 |
Succeeded byTremayne John Carew Pole |