[1] After serving in the Royal Navy, he was a newspaper executive, who rose to notoriety in his handling of trade union membership, initially as managing director of the Nottingham Evening Post.
[8] Pole-Carew was educated at Great Walstead School and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, from the age of 13.
[9] Pole-Carew's appointment as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire was the subject in 1979 of a House of Commons motion deploring it.
Prior to this the Pole-Carews had been custodians for 20 years of Old Shute House, near Axminster, owned by the National Trust.
[11] Pole-Carew is a descendant of William Pole (1515–1587), MP for Bossiney, who purchased the Shute estate in 1560.