Pole Baronets of Shute House (1628)

The Pole, later de-la-Pole, later Reeve-de-la-Pole Baronetcy, of Shute House in the County of Devon, was created in the Baronetage of England on 12 September 1628 for John Pole (died 1658), Member of Parliament for Devon.[2] It was created during the lifetime of his father,[3] the historian of Devon, Sir William Pole (d.1635), Knight, MP, of Colcombe Castle and Shute in Devon. The second Baronet was Member of Parliament for Honiton. The third Baronet represented Lyme Regis, Bossiney, Devon, East Looe and Newport in the House of Commons. The fourth Baronet was Member of Parliament for Newport, Camelford, Devon, Bossiney and Honiton. The sixth Baronet represented West Looe in Parliament. In 1790 he assumed the surname of de-la-Pole, which his successor discontinued. The eighth Baronet assumed in 1838 the surname of Reeve-de-la-Pole but later discontinued it.

Arms of Pole of Shute: Azure semée of fleur-de-lys or, a lion rampant argent[1]

The tenth Baronet resumed the use of the surname of de-la-Pole. The eleventh Baronet was High Sheriff of Devon in 1917. The twelfth Baronet, who succeeded his kinsman in 1926, was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, eldest son of William Henry Pole-Carew, third son of the Right Honourable Reginald Pole-Carew, Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel (who assumed the additional surname of Carew), elder son of Reginald Pole, son of Reverend Carolus Pole, third son of the third Baronet, by his wife Sarah Rashleigh, daughter of Jonathan Rashleigh (1642–1702), of Menabilly, Cornwall, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1687 (of whom a portrait exists at Antony House), by his wife Jane Carew, daughter of Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet (see Carew baronets). On his succession he assumed by deed poll the surname of Pole only in lieu of Pole-Carew. Pole was a Colonel in the Coldstream Guards, a member, chairman and Alderman of the Cornwall County Council and Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall.

As of 2023 the title is held by his son, the thirteenth Baronet, who succeeded in 1993. He has been a member of the Cornwall County Council, was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1980 and is a Deputy Lieutenant of the county.

Pole baronets, of Shute House (1628)
Sir John Pole, 5th Baronet with his wife in 1755

Notes
  1. Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 497; Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 645
  2. Cokayne, George E. (George Edward) (1902). Complete Baronetage. Vol. II. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 57–59.
  3. The historian Pole makes reference to "John Pole, Baronet, my sonne" in his work (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 224)
  4. "Pole, John (c.1589-1658), of Shute, Devon; later of Colcombe Castle, Colyton, Devon and Bromley-by-Bow, Mdx., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  5. "Pole, Sir Edmund Reginald Talbot de la". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. "Pole, Sir Frederick Arundell de la". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "Carew Pole, Col Sir John (Gawen)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. "Carew Pole, Sir (John) Richard (Walter Reginald)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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