sentences:  Maitland-Carew was born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, being the second son of The 6th Baron Carew by his Scottish spouse, Sylvia Gwendoline, daughter of The 15th Earl of Lauderdale.His father, Lord Carew, was the owner of Castletown House in Celbridge, County Kildare, which is possibly the largest country house still standing (and not a ruin) anywhere in Ireland.As the Maitland's male entail had been broken, he inherited Thirlestane Castle through his mother, in 1971, when he also assumed the new surname of Maitland-Carew by Deed Poll.