Modern English biography

_portrait_; _Photographic News 20 Aug. 1880 pp._ 402–3. PONTON, THOMAS (son of Thomas Ponton of Battersea, Surrey). _b._ 1781; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., created M.A. 28 March 1800; barrister L.I. 26 April 1804; a governor of Christ’s hospital; one of the founders of the Roxburghe club 1812, and edited for it La Morte d’ Arthur 1819. _d._ 4 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 13 April 1853. _G.M. xli_ 92 (1854). POOK, EDMUND WALTER (son of Ebenezer Whitcher Pook of 2 London st. Greenwich, bookseller and stationer). _b._ 1850; a singer; tried at central criminal court 13 July 1871 for murder of Jane Maria Clousen, a servant to his father, who was found nearly dead in Kidbrook lane, near Eltham, Kent 26 April and _d._ in Guy’s hospital 30 April 1871, aged 17; he _d._ Salisbury st. London 23 April 1882. _A.R._ (1871) 229–34; _Central criminal court session paper_, _minutes of evidence lxxiv_ 245–309 (1871); _The Eltham tragedy reviewed by C._ [_i.e. Newton Crosland_] 1871, _4 ed._ 1871; _A report of the speeches at the Blackheath meeting on the Pook v. Farrah libel case 1871_. POOLE, ANNIE. A singer at concerts in Bristol; appeared at theatre royal, Bristol as Jessy in the Crimson scarf Sept. 1876; played Patience in Sullivan’s Henry VIII at Manchester and Liverpool; was seen as Cinderella at Glasgow; played Madame Vere de Vere in Tantalus at Folly theatre 14 Oct. 1878; played Jelly in W. S. Gilbert’s Princess Toto at Opera Comique 15 Oct. 1881; was seen in many provincial pantomimes at Bristol, etc.; _m._ Russell Craufurd, actor. _d._ St. Saviour’s hospital, Osnaburgh st. Regent’s park, London 15 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Brompton cemet. _Illust. sp. and dr. news xii_ 121, 151 (1879) _portrait_. POOLE, ARTHUR WILLIAM (son of Thomas Francis Poole). _b._ Shrewsbury 6 Aug. 1852; educ. Shrewsbury school and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, D.D. 1883; C. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1876; master of the high school at Masulipatam, Madras 1878–81; a missionary at Telugu in South India 1881–3; missionary bishop of Japan May 1883 to 1885, consecrated in the chapel, Lambeth palace 18 Oct. 1883; spent winter of 1884–5 in California. _d._ at his father’s residence, Fairfield, Shrewsbury 14 July 1885. _Times 20 July 1885 p._ 6. POOLE, EDWARD STANLEY (elder son of rev. Edward Richard Poole, barrister and book collector, and of Sophia Poole 1804–91). _b._ 1830; chief clerk of the science and art department, London 1857 to death; an Arabic scholar; wrote many articles for W. Smith’s Dictionary of the bible, 4 vols. 1868; contributed to 8th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica; edited Edward Wm. Lane’s Thousand and one nights, new ed. 3 vols. 1859, another ed. 1883, and his Account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1860, 2 ed. 1871. _d._ St. Nicholas road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 12 March 1867. POOLE, ELLEN. _b._ 1846; known on the music hall stage as Nellie Desmond; _m._ John Joshua Poole, and helped in the management of the South London music hall, London road, Surrey from 1872, carried it on alone from 1882; Harry Ulph, junior was a partner with her for a short time in 1882; aided by her eldest son Jules Joshua Poole later on (he _d._ Cape Town 21 Dec. 1895 aged 22), sold the hall to a company 1893, remaining the manager; she became bankrupt 12 June 1895; her daughters Violet and Evelyn are on the music hall stage. _d._ London 1 Nov. 1895. _bur._ Abney park cemetery. POOLE, GEORGE AYLIFFE. _b._ 1809; scholar of Emmanuel coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1838; C. of Twickenham 1831–4; C. of St. John the Evangelist, Edinburgh 1834–7; C. of St. Chad, Shrewsbury 1837–9; P.C. of St. James’s, Leeds 1839–43; V. of Welford, Northamptonshire 1843–76; R. of Winwick near Rugby June 1876 to death; rural dean of Haddon 1876; promoted the revival of Gothic architecture; contributed 35 papers to Architectural soc. of archdeaconry of Northampton 1846–77; author of The exile’s return, or a cat’s journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh, Edinburgh 1837; The testimony of St. Cyprian against Rome 1838; The life and times of St. Cyprian, Oxford 1840; The appropriate character of church architecture, Leeds 1842, reissued as Churches, their structure, arrangement, and decoration 1845; A history of England from the invasion by the Romans to the accession of queen Victoria, 2 vols. 1844–5, 2 ed. 1855; A history of ecclesiastical architecture in England 1848; Peterborough 1881 in Diocesan histories; his name is attached to upwards of 30 works 1834–83. _d._ Winwick rectory 25 Sept.