Robert Shapland Carew (1752–1829) was an Irish politician.Ancestry Ireland Waterford CityJupp, P. J. (1986). "CAREW, Robert Shapland I (1752-1829), of Castleborough, co. Wexford." In Thorne, R. J. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820. Woodbridge, Surrey: Boydell & Brewer. p. 407.
Carew was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.George Dames Burtchaell; Thomas Ulick Sadleir (1935). Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860). Dublin: Alex Thom and Co. p. 132.
Carew represented Waterford City from 1776 to 1801 and, after the Acts of Union, County Wexford in the British House of Commons from 1806 to 1807.
His son was the 1st Baron Carew.
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