Education
Evans-Freke was educated at Downside, a Benedictine boarding school in Somerset.
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Peter Ralfe Harrington Evans-Freke
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Career
He then served in British India and ended his military service with the rank of Captain. Following the war, Evans-Freke went into business, becoming a director of an equine and livestock insurance company. In a marriage which lasted more than sixty years, the couple were frequent visitors to Lourdes.
On 25 December 1970 Evans-Freke succeeded an uncle in the family peerage and baronetcy.
He had a deep interest in agriculture. Carbery had his last wish fulfilled when he was entombed in the ancient family vault, the crypt of the ruined chapel of Castle Freke, a ruin overlooking the Atlantic in the west of County Cork, following a Tridentine Mass at the church in Rathbarry.
That was the first time the vault at Castle Freke had been opened since 1852. The immediacy of his religious belief was reflected in the simple rosary placed on his coffin for the Massachusetts
