Background
He was the son of Gerald Shapland Carew, 5th Baron Carew and Catherine Conolly, daughter of Thomas Conolly, Member of Parliament, of Castletown, Celbridge, Company.Kildare.
Governor of Bermuda commander Duke of Cornwall
He was the son of Gerald Shapland Carew, 5th Baron Carew and Catherine Conolly, daughter of Thomas Conolly, Member of Parliament, of Castletown, Celbridge, Company.Kildare.
Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Born William Francis Carew, he assumed the additional surname of Conolly by deed poll in 1938. Upon the death of his father in 1927 he inherited the title of Baron Carew in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (cr 1838) and also in the Peerage of Ireland (cr1834). Lord Carew was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst.
He was gazetted into the Duke of Cornwall"s Light Infantry in 1925, and served during the Second World War as a captain, reaching the brevet rank of major.
They had issue:
Patrick Thomas Conolly-Carew, 7th Baron Carew (born 1938)
Diana Sylvia, (born 1940)
Gerald Maitland-Carew (born 1941)
Sarah Catherine, (born 1944).