Christopher Pole-Carew Explained

Christopher Gerald Pole-Carew
Birth Date:1931 5, df=yes
Nationality:British Citizen
Known For:High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1979, Newspaper executive, Trade Union disputes (as management)
Occupation:Newspaper executive
Education:Great Walstead School

Christopher Gerald Pole-Carew (17 May 1931  - 12 February 2020)[1] was a British appointee as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1979.[2] After serving in the Royal Navy, he was a newspaper executive, who rose to notoriety in his handling of trade union membership, initially as managing director of the Nottingham Evening Post.[3] [4] He sacked journalists who joined the trade union or for going on strike for less pay than they were currently receiving - about £1,500 a year,[5] and later under Rupert Murdoch, where his role included trade union matters.[6] [7] The appointment brought comment in the House of Commons.[8]

Pole-Carew was educated at Great Walstead School and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, from the age of 13.[9]

Pole-Carew's appointment as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire was the subject in 1979 of a House of Commons motion deploring it.[10]

Although retired, Pole-Carew continued to hold two directorships.

Pole-Carew lived near Axminster, in Devon, with Gillian, his wife. Prior to this the Pole-Carews had been custodians for 20 years of Old Shute House, near Axminster, owned by the National Trust.[11] Pole-Carew is a descendant of William Pole (1515–1587), MP for Bossiney, who purchased the Shute estate in 1560.

He died on 12 February 2020 at the age of 88.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mr Christopher Gerald Pole-Carew - free company director check. Companies House Information. 30 April 2012.
  2. 16 March 1979. High Sheriffs appointed by Her Majesty in Council for the year 1979. The London Gazette. 47795. 3458. Nottinghamshire - Christopher Gerald Pole-Carew, Esq, of New Field House, near Screveton.
  3. Web site: All Life's a Game - Trevor Frecknall recalls his time working with Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough - This is Nottingham. https://archive.today/20130505082446/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Football-unions-Brian-Clough/story-12244827-detail/story.html. dead. 5 May 2013. Frecknall. Trevor. 22 December 2010. This is Nottingham. 30 April 2012. The Post was embarking on the latest (and, as it transpired, the last) massive confrontation with the massed militant forces of the Trades Union movement in the uncompromising campaign masterminded by its managing director, Christopher Pole-Carew, to modernise newspaper production globally..
  4. Web site: Five decades of regional news reporting - Press Gazette. Sassi. Mike. 25 November 2005. Press Gazette. 30 April 2012. Shirley Tart, royal correspondent, Shropshire Star, and associate editor, Shropshire Magazine ON A BRIGHT, early spring morning in 1981 I was sitting on the subs' desk of the Kent Evening Post editing that day's paper when I received a call from Christopher Pole-Carew, managing director of the Nottingham Evening Post.. https://archive.today/20130505095207/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=32620&sectioncode=1. 5 May 2013. dead.
  5. Web site: 'Don't mention profits in front of the Colonel' - Press Gazette. Slattery. Jon. 30 September 2005. Press Gazette. 30 April 2012. Pole-Carew was the controversial MD at the Nottingham Evening Post who sacked journalists after they joined the 1976 national pay strike.. https://web.archive.org/web/20111021081537/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=31988. 21 October 2011. dead.
  6. Web site: Wapping lies. Taylor. Ian. September 2009. Socialist Review. 30 April 2012. In February [1985], Murdoch flew senior executives to New York to outline plans to replace his Fleet Street workers with a scab workforce of hundreds at the new plant. ... At the same time he hired a notorious union-basher, Christopher Pole Carew, to set up the scab operation..
  7. Newsinger. John. 27 March 2012. International Socialism. 134. "Most humble day": the Murdoch empire on the defensive. 10 July 2016. The man Murdoch brought in to manage the Wapping operation, Christopher Pole Carew, had wanted to recruit non-union scabs.
  8. Web site: Employment Rights . 7 March 1986. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 605. 30 April 2012. That is rather like inviting the Russian social democratic party—as it was before the revolution—to cease its activities pending the promotion of Rasputin to a more responsible position in the Tsarist hierarchy. Mr. Pole-Carew does not enjoy the confidence of the print unions, and he has had a somewhat chequered career in that area. His appointment is an example of the lack of good will on the part of News International..
  9. Book: Williams, Barrie. Somebody Had to Do it: The Story of Notorious "Union Buster" Christopher Pole-Carew. 8. 29 April 2012. 25 August 2010. AuthorHouse. 978-1452029528.
  10. News: Row over Sheriff. 10 March 1979. The Herald. Glasgow. 30 April 2012. A commons motion deploring the appointment of Mr Christopher Pole-Carew ... as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire was signed by more than 50 Labour MPs ....
  11. Abrams. Hilary. March 2009. Shute Barton. Kilmington Postscript. kilmingtonvillage.com. 112. 12. 30 April 2012. The house was built for Lord William Bonville in 1460 and was owned by the same family for most of the following years until it was given to the National Trust in 1959. For the past 20 years it has been tenanted by the Pole-Carew family who are descendants of Lord William.. https://web.archive.org/web/20131224103429/http://kilmingtonvillage.com/postscript/March09.pdf. 24 December 2013. dead.
  12. http://epaper.thetimes.co.uk/epaper/viewer.aspx Christopher Pole-Carew

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