eldest son, married Anne, second daughter of John Francis Buller, of Morvall, in Cornwall, Esq. by whom he had three sons and two daughters: viz. 1. Reginald[1]; 2. Charles Morice, born at Stoke Damarell, co. Devon, Jan. 18, 1757; and 3. Edward, who is married, and has issue. The daughters were; Anne, who married Charles, the first Lord Somers; and Sarah, who married Henry Hippisley Coxe, of Stone Easton, in Somersetshire, Esq. and died without issue.
Charles Morice Pole, the second son, being intended for the sea service, and having received a suitable education at that excellent institution the Royal Naval College, at Portsmouth, embarked as a Midshipman, with Captain Locker, the late Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital[2], in the Thames frigate, in 1772 he afterwards served in the Salisbury, of 50 guns, with Sir Edward Hughes, whom he accompanied to the East Indies; where he received his promotion to a Lieutenancy in the Seahorse frigate, from which ship he was removed into the Rippon, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Vernon, and was engaged in the indecisive actions fought between that officer and Mons. Tranjolly[3]. He was also employed in the command of a body of seamen and marines, at the siege of Pondicherry, the capital of the
- ↑ Some years since, this gentleman added the name of Carew to that of his own, pursuant to the will of Sir Coventry Carew, of Anthony, in Cornwall; and he also represented the boroughs of Fowey and Lostwithiel, in several successive parliaments, until he was appointed one of the auditors of public accompts; which office he relinquished, at the general election in 1802, when he was again returned for Fowey. In the following year, he was appointed Under Secretary of State for the home department, which he resigned on the termination of Mr. Addington’s administration, in 1804; and, in 1805, he was sworn a privy counsellor. He married, in 1784, Jemima, only daughter and heiress of the Hon. John Yorke, fourth son of Philip, first Earl of Hardwicke, then Lord-High-Chancellor of Great Britain, by Elizabeth, only daughter of Reginald Lygon, of Madresfield, in the county of Worcester, Esq. father of the present Lord Beauchamp.
- ↑ Lieutenant-Governor Locker died Dec. 26, 1800. This gentleman was the nautical tutor of the late Lord Nelson, who loved him with the sincere affection of a friend, revered him as a foster parent, and seized with avidity every possible opportunity of publicly declaring he was indebted for the honours he had been fortunate in acquiring, to the instructions and knowledge he had received from this good and gallant man.
- ↑ See p. 57.
