Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet

For other people named Richard Carew (disambiguation), see Richard Carew (disambiguation) (disambiguation).

Sir John Richard Walter Reginald Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, OBE, DL (born 2 December 1938) is the present holder of the Pole baronetcy granted to his ancestor by King Charles I in 1628. He lives at Antony House in Cornwall. He succeeded his father, Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet, in 1993.

Public service

Sir Richard is 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 is 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 Honor in 2007.

His wife, Mary Dawnay (Lady Carew Pole), is a former Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Anne and President of the Royal Cornwall Show.

References

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