Sir John Richard Walter Reginald Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, OBE, DL (2 December 1938 – 1 December 2024) was a British aristocrat who was a holder of the Pole baronetcy, granted to his ancestor by King Charles I in 1628.
He lived at Antony House in Cornwall, and succeeded his father, Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet, in 1993.
[1] Carew Pole was a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Cornwall, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, the Pilgrim Trust, and the Eden Project, a Governor of Gresham's School, Holt, and President of the Cornwall Gardens Trust.
He was High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1978 and was a past Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers and a past president of the Royal Horticultural Society, from which he received the Victoria Medal of Honour in 2007.
[2] They had two sons: Sir Richard Carew Pole died at home in Cornwall, on 1 December 2024, one day shy of his 86th birthday.