Reginald Pole-Carew (British Army officer)

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. 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 before becoming General Officer Commanding 8th Division in Southern Ireland in 1903. He was Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bodmin from 1910 to 1916. In 1911, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cornwall.

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, the elder of whom was John Carew Pole, and two daughters.

Decorations

 * Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB, 1887
 * Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, KCB, 29 November 1900, in recognition of services in connection with the Campaign in South Africa 1899-1900
 * Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, CVO, 8 March 1901