POLE-CAREW, Mrs Christopher (Gillian Elizabeth nee BURTON) c1933-2023

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 26 May 2023: POLE-CAREW Gillian Elizabeth died peacefully after a short illness on 20th May 2023, aged 91. Beloved wife of the late Christopher, much loved mother of Delia, Peregrine and Camilla; grandmother and great grandmother. Funeral Service at 11 a.m. on Monday 19th June at St Michael’s, Shute, East Devon.

She was d of Clive Mence BURTON of South Africa. She m 1954 Christopher Gerald 1931-2020 s of Maj Gerald Ayshford POLE-CAREW 1887-1969 (4xgt gs of Sir John POLE 3rd Bt 1649-1708, 2xgt gs of 1^st Baron LYTTELTON 1724-1808 (gt gf of 8^th Viscount COBHAM 1842-1922), etc) and Eileen Flora Lismore 1893-1989 d of Surg-Maj George Henry Kenneth McDonald O'CALLAGHAN CMG by his 1888 m reg Q3 Som, separated/div 1895 to Susanna Charlton HARDING c1866-1925, and had a son and two daus as above.

[S R Eglesfield]

It seems very likely that Mrs Pole-Carew was the Gillian E Burton whose birth was registered in Tynemouth in Q3 1931 (mother's maiden name Elliott). Clive Mence BURTON (15 X 1904 - 5 I 1983) was her father by his second wife, Anne Elizabeth ELLIOTT (10 IX 1905 - 29 XII 1981). 

Clive Mence Burton was the sixth and youngest child of Edward Pritchard BURTON (1857 - 23 VII 1924), of the firm of Pritchard and Burton, tobacco manufacturers, and his wife (married 1880), Ada Maude McRAE (1859 - 20 XII 1943). His brother, Brig Colin BURTON, CBE, DSO (1883 - 4 V 1945), was married on 10 April 1907 to Gladys Astley COOPER (1883 - 18 XI 1937), a granddaughter of Sir Astley Paston COOPER, 2nd Bt (13 I 1798 - 6 I 1866).