Reginald Pole-Carew (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General

Sir Reginald Pole-Carew

KCB CVO
Portrait by Julian Russell Story
Born(1849-05-01)1 May 1849
Died19 September 1924(1924-09-19) (aged 75)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
BranchBritish Army
RankLieutenant-General
Commands8th Division
11th Division
Guards Brigade
9th Brigade
ConflictsSecond Anglo-Afghan War
Second Boer War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew (1 May 1849 – 19 September 1924) was a British politician, landowner and British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 8th Division.

Background and family

Pole-Carew was the son of William Pole-Carew (1811–1888) by his wife Frances Anne Buller (d. 1902), daughter of John Buller. His father was a descendant of the Pole baronets of Shute House, and served as Member of Parliament for East Cornwall.[1]

Military career

Pole-Carew was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1869.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in February 1895.[3]

He served as a staff officer with Lord Roberts in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878 and again served with him during the Second Boer War of 1899–1902. He was promoted to the substantive rank of colonel on 27 November 1899, and at the same time appointed in command of the 9th Brigade with the local rank of major-general.[4] As such he was in command of the brigade during the Battle of Modder River on 28 November 1899. In February 1900 he was appointed in command of the Guards Brigade,[5] shortly before the Relief of Kimberley, but two months later he transferred in april 1900 to command of the 11th Division of the South Africa Field Force.[6][7] After the end of the war in South Africa, he was appointed General Officer Commanding 8th Division in Southern Ireland in 1903.[8]

Political career

Pole-Carew was Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bodmin from 1910 to 1916.[9] In 1911, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cornwall.[10] He lived at Antony House in Cornwall.[11]

General Pole-Carew, his wife Beatrice and his sister-in-law Lady Constance Butler hosted the King, the Queen, and Princess Victoria at Shanbally Castle on 3 May 1904.[12]

Marriage and children

On 19 February 1901, Pole-Carew married Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde and Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde, in the Guards Chapel, Knightsbridge.[13] The wedding reception was held at Stafford House.

Two days prior to the Wedding Ceremony King Edward and Queen Alexandra had received Lord and Lady Ormonde, Lady Beatrice, and Major General Pole-Carew at Marlborough House, where the King and Queen presented Beatrice with a wedding present of a pair of diamonds wings with a large ruby in the centre. The King also personally presented an Indian Shawl directly to Lady Beatrice. King Edward VII's daughter Princess Victoria also gave Beatrice a wedding present of a blue enamel and diamond brooch. The King's sisters Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Henry of Battenberg gave respective wedding presents of a diamond and emerald bracelet, an antique silver and tortoiseshell casket and a gold curb bracelet. The Duke of Cornwall and York and Duchess of Cornwall and York gave the couple a diamond and enamelled pendant, and the King's brother the Duke of Connaught gave a buhl clock.[14]

Sir Reginald and Lady Beatrice had four children:[15]

Inheritance and estates

Reginald inherited the Antony House Estate in Cornwall in 1888 following the death of his father. The Return of Owners of Land, 1873 Survey recorded that the Carew-Pole Estates near Torpoint in Cornwall comprised 3,698 acres of land yielding an estimated £6,401.[17]

By the time Reginald married Lady Beatrice Butler 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 distance 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.[18] 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.[19]

Following Reginald's death in 1924, his eldest son John inherited the Antony House Estate in Cornwall, whilst his younger son Major Patrick Pole-Carew later inherited the Shanbally Castle estate. Following the deaths Lady Constance Butler in 1949 and later Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew in 1953, Patrick sold the Shanbally Estate to the Irish Land Commission during the 1950's.[20]

Decorations

References

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  2. ^ "No. 23496". The London Gazette. 11 May 1869. p. 2744.
  3. ^ "No. 26597". The London Gazette. 12 February 1895. p. 847.
  4. ^ "No. 27156". The London Gazette. 23 January 1900. p. 430.
  5. ^ "Latest intelligence – The War, Western frontier". The Times. No. 36065. London. 14 February 1900. p. 5.
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  8. ^ Army Commands Archived 5 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Reginald Pole-Carew They work for you
  10. ^ "No. 28552". The London Gazette. 21 November 1911. p. 8451.
  11. ^ "William Pye - Antony Cone". Archived from the original on 24 April 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
  12. ^ "King and Queen visit Shanbally Castle, Tipperary, Ireland". Western Morning News. 4 May 1904. Retrieved 11 May 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "The wedding of General Pole Carew ...". The Cornubian and Redruth Times. No. 1966. 22 February 1901. p. 4.
  14. ^ "Wedding of Lady Beatrice Butler to Major-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew". The Daily Telegraph. 20 February 1901. p. 10. Retrieved 19 September 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ a b "Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, KCB, CVO, MP (1849-1924), object no. 352370". National Trust Collections. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  16. ^ “Marriage of the Hon. Jeremy Cubitt and Miss Diana Du Cane.” *The Surrey Advertiser, County Times*, 19 Jan. 1952, p. 5. Newspapers.com. Retrieved 12 Nov 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-surrey-advertiser-county-times-marr/184784608/
  17. ^ “Return of Owners of Land, 1873 (County of Cornwall)”, House of Commons Sessional Papers, No. 1874 lixxii, p. 5. Retrieved 11 Nov 2025 from https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d02468422h?urlappend=%3Bseq=177%3Bownerid=13510798899936106-191
  18. ^ "Will of 2nd Viscount Lismore". The Catholic Weekly. 22 April 1899. Retrieved 11 May 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "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.
  20. ^ Morrissey, John P. (29 December 2012). "Shanbally Castle: A Lost Treasure". John P. Morrissey. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
  21. ^ "No. 25761". The London Gazette. 25 November 1887. p. 6373.
  22. ^ "No. 27306". The London Gazette. 19 April 1901. p. 2695.
  23. ^ "No. 27292". The London Gazette. 8 March 1901. p. 1648.
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