Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet

For other people with the same name, see Richard Carew (disambiguation).

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.

External links

• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Sir Richard Carew Pole at the Royal Horticultural Society
• Antony House at the National Trust