Modern English biography

POLE, EDWARD SACHEVERELL CHANDOS (1 son of Sacheverell Pole 1769–1813, who assumed by sign manual name of Chandos in 1807). _b._ 1 March 1792; educ. Harrow 1813–7; matric. from St. Mary’s hall, Oxf. 14 Feb. 1817; at Great Harlow military college; ensign 1 foot guards 5 May 1808 to 1813; served in Walcheren expedition, and in Spain and Portugal to 1813; succeeded to the family property 14 April 1813; commanded Radbourne troop of yeomanry cavalry 1813; sheriff of Derbyshire 1827; an associate of British archæol. assoc. 1851; always known in Derby as The Squire. _d._ Radborne hall, Derby 19 Jany. 1863. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx_ 167 (1864); _G.M. March 1863 p._ 387. POLE, WILLIAM (brother of A. C. Van Notten Pole). _b._ 6 July 1798; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1823; professor of civil engineering in Univ. coll. London July 1859 to 1867, then in Elphinston coll. Bombay; F.R.S. 9 April 1829, vice-president 1876; one of the best whist players of his day; edited and completed The life of sir W. Fairbairn, Bart. 1877; author of A treatise on the Cornish pumping engine 1844 (being Appendix G in Tredgold on the Steam engine); wrote On the strength and defects of beams 1850; On the theory of the modern scientific game of whist 1865, 15 ed. 1885; Iron as a material of construction 1872; The philosophy of music 1877, 2 ed. 1887; The philosophy of whist 1883, 6 ed. 1892; The life of sir William Siemens 1888; The evolution of whist 1895; resided at 13 Devonshire place, London 1866 to death. _d._ 13 Devonshire place, London 29 July 1884. _W. P. Courtney’s English whist_ (1894) 224, 398. POLE-CAREW, WILLIAM HENRY (1 son of Reginald Pole-Carew, M.P., _d._ 1835). _b._ St. Marylebone parish, London 30 July 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1824–8 and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1864; M.P. East Cornwall 1845–52; sheriff of Cornwall 1854; recorder of East Looe 1857–86. _d._ Villa Poralto, Cannes 20 Jany. 1888. POLEHAMPTON, HENRY STEDMAN (2 son of Edward Polehampton, rector of Great Greenford, Middlesex). _b._ Great Greenford rectory 1 Feb. 1824; educ. Eton 1832–42; Wightwick scholar of Pemb. coll. Oxf. 17 Nov. 1842 to 1845, fellow 1845–56; captain of his college boat; rowed in the match with Cambridge 1846; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; C. of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, Easter 1849 to 30 Dec. 1855; R. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1849, resigned 1849; an East Indian chaplain 1 Sept. 1855; appointed chaplain to the Lucknow garrison 26 March 1856 to death; wounded during the siege 8 July 1857. _d._ Lucknow hospital 20 July 1857. _bur._ in the residency gardens, memorial tablet in St. Chad’s ch. Shrewsbury. _A memoir, letters, and diary of H. S. Polehampton_, _3 ed._ (1859). POLES, STEFAN. _b._ Poland 1847; educ. at Vitzburgh in Bavaria; took part in an outbreak of the Poles against Russia, condemned to death, fled from Poland 1864; a newspaper correspondent in America; assisted in raising a regiment of Poles at Bordeaux to fight against the Prussians 1870; intimate with the Communists in Paris 1871, imprisoned at Versailles May to Dec. 1871, when he escaped to England; brought an action against The Times for accusing him of stealing documents from M. Thiers’ residence in Paris and obtained £50 damages 10 Feb. 1874; author of Polska expeditionen, Malmö, Köpenhamm 1863; Tio Dagar i Warschau, Stockholm 1864; Zwei Regierungen in Warschau, Wien 1866; S. Poles _v._ The Times, action for libel in reference to papers of M. A. Thiers 1874; The actual condition of the British Museum, a literary expostulation by Stefan Poles, London H. S. Warr 63 High Holborn 1875. _d._ Middlesex hospital, London about 22 Nov.