Death of Joan Lady Carew Pole

_Joan Lady Carew Pole, who died 24 June, 2012, aged 91, was the 2nd wife, and widow, of Sir John Gawen Carew Pole, 12th Baronet, DSO, TD.

She was the former Joan Shirley Blackman, daughter of Rear Admiral Charles Maurice Blackman, DSO, and married firstly, Maj Jocelyn Arthur Persse, Rifle Brigade (of that Irish landed family), and secondly, in 1948, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Edgar of Fulford (b 23 July 1898), of Great Fulford, and head of that landed family; and thirdly, in 1979, as his second wife, and her third husband, Sir John Carew Pole, Bt, who died in 1993.