Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Pole-Carew

Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Pole-Carew
Photo of Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Pole-Carew, as seen in the Black and White Budget, 5 January 1901
Born(1876-12-28)December 28, 1876
Died(1952-02-29)February 29, 1952
SpouseSir Reginald Pole-Carew
Parents

Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Pole-Carew (née Butler) was a British aristocrat. She was a daughter of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde and Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde, and the wife of Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew. She is recorded as a sitter in several national portrait and heritage collections.[1]

Early life and family

Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Butler was born on 28 December 1876. She was the eldest daughter of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde and Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde, daughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster.[2][3]

Through her parents, she was connected to the Butler dynasty, a historic Anglo-Norman noble house long prominent in Ireland, and the Grosvenor family, which accumulated extensive land and property holdings in Britain, particularly in London's Mayfair and Belgravia districts.[4][5]

Marriage and family

On 19 February 1901, Lady Beatrice married Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, a British Army officer who later attained the rank of lieutenant-general, in the Guards Chapel, Knightsbridge.[6] The wedding reception was held at Stafford House.

Sir Reginald and Lady Beatrice had four children:[7]

Later life and death

By the time Lady Beatrice Butler married Sir Reginald in 1901, she had become a wealthy heiress in her own right. Although she was the eldest of the Marquess of Ormonde's two daughters, as well as a maternal granddaughter of the richest peer in the United Kingdom Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, Beatrice and her sister Lady Constance Butler had become heiresses primarily due to an unexpected inheritance from a distant cousin.

In 1898, the will of their first-cousin twice-removed George O'Callaghan, 2nd Viscount Lismore revealed that Beatrice and Constance would inherit his estate, subject to a life interest held by his widow.[9] Following the death of the Dowager Lady Lismore in 1900, Lady Beatrice and Lady Constance inherited an estate worth an estimated £25,000 annually, as well as Shanbally Castle in County Tipperary, Ireland,[10] which contemporary news reports suggested was worth £25,000 annually.[10] However, other sources indicated that upon his death, the 2nd Viscount Lismore owned 47,442 statutory acres which had an annual rent-roll of £18,435.[11]

During the early 20th century much of the landed estates which Lady Beatrice and her sister had inherited from Lord Lismore were sold via the Irish Land Commission:

  • In 1907 they were paid an advance of £15,200 for the sale of 1,104 acres in Tippery and 22 acres in Derry.[12]
  • In March 1910 a further £38,814 was paid as an advance to the sisters from the Land Commission for the sale of 2,587 acres in Tipperary, and £1,922 for 175 acres in King's County[13]
  • On 1 January 1912 a further 5,361 acres in Tipperary were sold for £13,129.[14]

Lady Beatrice died on 29 February 1952 at the age of 75.[1]

Portraits and legacy

Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew is recorded as a sitter in works held by the National Portrait Gallery and in objects held by the National Trust.[1][15]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Pole-Carew (née Butler)". National Portrait Gallery.
  2. ^ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (various ed.). Burke's Peerage.
  3. ^ Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage (various ed.). Debrett's.
  4. ^ "Our history". Grosvenor.
  5. ^ "The Grosvenor Estate, 1677–1977". History Today.
  6. ^ "The wedding of General Pole Carew ...". The Cornubian and Redruth Times. No. 1966. 22 February 1901. p. 4.
  7. ^ a b "Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, KCB, CVO, MP (1849-1924), object no. 352370". National Trust Collections. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  8. ^ "Marriage of The Hon. Jeremy Cubitt and Miss Diana Du Cane". The Surrey Advertiser, County Times. 1952-01-19. p. 14. Retrieved 2026-01-11.
  9. ^ "Will of 2nd Viscount Lismore". The Catholic Weekly. 22 April 1899. Retrieved 11 May 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b "Inheritance: Lady Beatrice Butler & Lady Constance Butler". Chester Chronicle, and Cheshire and North Wales General Advertiser. 1 April 1899. Retrieved 11 May 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ O'Donnell, Michael (2010). Fethard County Tipperary 1200–2000. Dublin: Geography Publications. pp. 142, 158. Retrieved 4 December 2025. Footnote No. 112 on p.142 and p. 158 cites the following sources: Rev. W. P. Burke, 'Collections relating to Clonmel', Burke MSS, vol. 1, pp. 121–134, Mount Melleray, Cappoquin; Fethard Corporation Books, NLI Ms. 5858, ff. 103, 227; James Kelly, That Damn'd Thing Called Honour (Cork, 1995), p. 140; Rev. Walter Skehan, 'Extracts from the minutes of the corporation of Fethard, Co. Tipperary', The Irish Genealogist, 4 (1969), pp. 81–82, 185; Joseph F. P. O'Callaghan, The O'Callaghan Family of County Cork: A History (Dublin, 2004), pp. 144–148; Thomas P. Power, Land, Politics, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary (Oxford, 1993), pp. 84, 149–150.
  12. ^ Return of Advances Made under the Irish Land Act, 1907, during the Months of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, October, November and December, 1907. Parliamentary Papers. Vol. XC. London: HMSO. 1908. pp. 166, 242. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  13. ^ Monthly Returns of Advances Made under the Irish Land Act, 1903, during November 1909 to October 1910. Parliamentary Papers. Vol. LXVI. London: HMSO. 1911. p. xii, 130, 131, 140. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
  14. ^ "Monthly Returns of Advances Made under the Irish Land Act, 1903, during January to March 1912". Parliamentary Papers, Session 1912–13, Vol. LXXI, p.1. HMSO. 1913. Retrieved 6 December 2025. Referenced at pp. 29, 30, and 113 of the digitised volume (University of Southampton Digital Library; Parliamentary Papers vol. barcode 00364105).
  15. ^ "Lady Beatrice Butler, Lady Pole-Carew (1876–1952)". National Trust Collections.
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