Reginald Pole-Carew (British Army officer)

Sir Reginald Pole-Carew

Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew
Born 1 May 1849
Died 19 September 1924
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Rank Lieutenant-General
Commands held 8th Division
Battles/wars Second Anglo-Afghan War
Second Boer War
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

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

Military career

Pole-Carew was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1869.[1] He served as a staff officer with Lord Roberts in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878 and commanded the 11th Division of the South Africa Field Force during the Second Boer War[2] before becoming General Officer Commanding 8th Division in Southern Ireland in 1903.[3] He was Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bodmin from 1910 to 1916.[4]

He lived at Antony House in Cornwall.

Family

In 1901 he married Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde; they had two sons and two daughters.[5]

References

Military offices
Preceded by
Hugh McCalmont
General Officer Commanding the 8th Division
1903–1905
Succeeded by
William Knox
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Cecil Grenfell
Member of Parliament for Bodmin
December 1910 – 1916
Succeeded by
Charles Hanson