Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Pole-Carew (née Butler) was a British aristocrat. She was a daughter of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde and Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde, and the wife of Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew. She is recorded as a sitter in several national portrait and heritage collections.
Lady Beatrice Frances Elizabeth Butler was born on 28 December 1876. She was the eldest daughter of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde and Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde, daughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster.
Through her parents, she was connected to the Butler dynasty, a historic Anglo-Norman noble house long prominent in Ireland, and the Grosvenor family, which accumulated extensive land and property holdings in Britain, particularly in London's Mayfair and Belgravia districts.
On 19 February 1901, Lady Beatrice married Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, a British Army officer who later attained the rank of lieutenant-general, in the Guards Chapel, Knightsbridge. The wedding reception was held at Stafford House.
Sir Reginald and Lady Beatrice had four children:
By the time Lady Beatrice Butler married Sir Reginald in 1901, she had become a wealthy heiress in her own right. Although she was the eldest of the Marquess of Ormonde's two daughters, as well as a maternal granddaughter of the richest peer in the United Kingdom Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, Beatrice and her sister Lady Constance Butler had become heiresses primarily due to an unexpected inheritance from a distant cousin.
In 1898, the will of their first-cousin twice-removed George O'Callaghan, 2nd Viscount Lismore revealed that Beatrice and Constance would inherit his estate, subject to a life interest held by his widow. Following the death of the Dowager Lady Lismore in 1900, Lady Beatrice and Lady Constance inherited an estate worth an estimated ã25,000 annually, as well as Shanbally Castle in County Tipperary, Ireland, which contemporary news reports suggested was worth ã25,000 annually. However, other sources indicated that upon his death, the 2nd Viscount Lismore owned 47,442 statutory acres which had an annual rent-roll of ã18,435.
During the early 20th century much of the landed estates which Lady Beatrice and her sister had inherited from Lord Lismore were sold via the Irish Land Commission:
Lady Beatrice died on 29 February 1952 at the age of 75.
Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew is recorded as a sitter in works held by the National Portrait Gallery and in objects held by the National Trust.