Gerald Shapland Carew, 5th Baron Carew (26 April 1860 – 3 October 1927), was the son of Shapland Francis Carew, younger son of Sir Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew, and his wife Lady Hester Georgiana Browne, daughter of Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, in 1858. He married Catherine Conolly, daughter of Thomas Conolly, MP. They had three children:
He succeeded his cousin George Carew, 4th Baron Carew, as Baron Carew, a barony in the Peerage of Ireland and the Peerage of the United Kingdom, upon his death in 1926. He was succeeded by his son William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew.