Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew
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Sir Robert Shapland Carew, 1st Baron Carew KP (9 March 1787 - 2 June 1856) was an Irish politician and landowner.
He was born in Dublin, the son of Robert Shapland Carew (1752 - 1829), also an MP landowner and Anne Pigott. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church Oxford. He and Jane Catherine Cliffe, daughter of Major Anthony Cliffe and Frances Deane, were married on 16 November 1816. They had three sons and a daughter:
- Hon. Anne Dorothea Carew (died 1909), married John Davies Gilbert.
- Hon. Ellen Jane Carew (died 1902), married Charles Glynne Prideaux-Brune.
- Sir Robert Shapland Carew, 2nd Baron Carew (1818 - 1881).
- Hon. Shapland Francis Carew (1827 - 1892).
He was Whig Party Member of Parliament for Wexford County between 1812 and 1830 and between 1831 and 1834. He was Lord-Lieutenant of County Wexford between 1831 and his death. He was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Carew, of County Wexford in 1834, and then to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Carew of Castle Boro, Co Wexford in 1838. He was invested as a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick in 1851. On his death in 1856 his baronies passed to his elder son Robert Shapland Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, who also became Lord-Lieutenant of County Wexford.
