Robert Carew, 3rd Baron Carew

Robert Shapland George Julian Carew, 3rd Baron Carew KP DL (15 June 1860 – 29 April 1923) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman.

3rd Baron Carew, Photographed 29 May 1902.

He was born in Dublin, the elder son of Robert Shapland Carew, 2nd Baron Carew and his wife Emily Anne Philips, daughter of Sir George Richard Philips, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He was Deputy Lieutenant of County Wexford, residing at the family seat, Castleboro House.

Family edit

 
Lady Julia Carew by W. & D. Downey

He married Julia Mary Lethbridge, daughter of Albert Arthur Erin Lethbridge and Jane Hill on 27 June 1888 at St. George's, Hanover Square, London. Julia was born in Hamilton, Ontario on 9 October 1863. She spent several years as a child in Persia, where her great-uncle Charles Alison (1810-1872)[2] was British minister. She was educated in England. A miniature of Julia, by C. Turrell, was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1900. A portrait and sketch of her appeared in "Men and Women of the Day" (London : 1889).[3] The Carew Spinel of the Mughal emperors bought in Persia by her relative was bequeathed to the V&A in 1922 by Lady Carew.[4]

The couple had no children. On his death the baronies passed to his younger brother George.

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Carew, the Hon. Robert Shapland George Julian (CRW879RS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "04/09/1866 – Moving in with Charles Alison, the British ambassador in Tehran". Tinco Martinus Lycklama à Nijeholt (1837-1900). 4 September 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  3. ^ Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1903). Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada. Toronto: Williams Briggs. p. 43.
  4. ^ "The Carew Spinel (Spinel) | V&A Search the Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

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External links edit

  • "Carew, Baron" . Thom's Irish Who's Who. Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 32.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Carew
1881–1923
Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Baron Carew
1881–1923
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