Modern English biography

_Academy xxiv_ 229 (1883). POOLE, HENRY. _b._ 1785; a Sunday school teacher under rev. J. J. Biddulph at Bristol; C. of Ossett, near Wakefield 1811; in part charge of Corsham, Wilts. 1814; P.C. of chapelries of Coleford and Bream in Newland parish Aug. 1818; rebuilt Coleford chapel and Bream chapel and erected a church at Park End; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Dean, Gloucs. 1822 to death; devoted himself to the welfare of the inhabitants of the Forest of Dean. _d._ Park End, near Lydney, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1857. _H. G. Nicholl’s Personalities of the forest of Dean_ (1863) 152–60. POOLE, HENRY GEORGE (son of James Poole of 171 Regent st. London, tailor, _d._ 1847). _b._ Everett st. Russell sq. London 8 Nov. 1814; entered his father’s business about 1830; tailor 32 Savile row, London 1847 to death; firm became H. Poole and co. 36–39 Savile row; tailor by appointment to most of the crowned heads of Europe; regularly made clothes for Napoleon iii; the best known tailoring establishment in the world; employed 7 coat cutters, 4 trousers and vest cutters, 2 trimmers, and 2 cutters of liveries; began making clothes for the Prince of Wales 1860, received a warrant of appointment from him 20 March 1863; resided at Dorset cottage, Fulham about 1860–70, and at Marine parade, Brighton about 1870 to death. _d._ 118 Marine parade, Brighton 4 May 1876. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 10 May, personalty sworn under £120,000, 15 June 1876, left a widow and a sister. His business went to his cousin Samuel Cundey, his niece Fanny Cutler and his executor Charles Bentley Bingley. _The Tailor 11 May 1876 p._ 304, _6 July p._ 376. POOLE, JOHN. Ensign 22 foot 24 March 1814, major 18 Oct. 1839 to 30 Nov. 1846, when placed on retired full pay; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._ 6 West Mall. Clifton 1 July 1871. POOLE, JOHN. _b._ 1786; his best known dramas were, produced at Drury Lane, Hamlet travestie 17 June 1813; Who’s who, or the double imposture 15 Nov. 1815; Deaf as a post 15 Feb. 1823; My wife, what wife 2 April 1829; produced at Covent Garden A short reign and a merry one 19 Nov. 1819; The two pages of Frederick the Great 1 Dec. 1821; The Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825; The wife’s stratagem 13 March 1827; produced at the Haymarket Match making 25 Aug. 1821; Married and single 16 July 1824; Paul Pry 13 Sept. 1825; Twixt the cup and the lip 12 June 1826; Lodgings for single gentlemen 15 June 1829; resided in Paris many years; a brother of the Charterhouse, but resigned his appointment; granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Feb. 1851; author of Crotchets in the air, or a balloon trip 1838; Christmas festivities 1845–8, four specimens; Comic miscellany 1845; Little Pedlington, 2 vols. 1839; Phineas Quiddy, or sheer industry, 3 vols. 1843. _d._ Highgate road, Kentish Town, London 5 Feb. 1872. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 10 Feb. _J. Poole’s Sketches and recollections_, 2 _vols._ (1835) _portrait_; _J. Poole’s Christmas festivities_ (1845) _portrait_; _S. C. Hall’s Book of memories_, _2 ed._ (1877) 160–2; _Era 18 Feb. 1872 p._ 9; _New Monthly Mag. xxxi_ 271–81 (1831) _portrait_. POOLE, JOHN JOSHUA (son of a hatter). _b._ King st. Southwark, London 1826; member of orchestra of theatre royal, Birmingham; musical director and manager of Holden’s music hall, Birmingham; manager of Metropolitan music hall, Edgware road, London; with Henry Speedy proprietor of South London music hall 1872–9, sole proprietor 1879 to death; he much encouraged his pianist Walter Slaughter, who wrote his first ballet at the South London. _d._ Connaught house, St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 6 Oct. 1882. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 11 Oct. _The Era 7 Oct. 1882 p._ 5, _14 Oct. p._ 5. POOLE, JOSEPH. _b._ Portsmouth 1802; educ. in France; local Wesleyan preacher at Honiton; a bookseller at Poole, Dorset; second hand bookseller in London road, London about 1852; at 15, 16 and 39 Holywell st. Strand 1854 to death. _d._ Holywell st. 18 Dec. 1883. POOLE, MATTHEW. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 5 Madras N.I. 20 June 1822, captain 27 May 1834, major 29 Sept. 1842, lieut. col. 22 March 1849 to death. _d._ Itchapore 10 July 1855. POOLE, PAUL FALCONER (4 son of James Paul Poole, grocer). _b._ 43 College st. Bristol 28 Dec. 1807; baptised by names of Paul Fawkner 22 July 1810; historical painter; exhibited 65 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I., and 13 at Suffolk st. 1830–79; awarded the Heywood gold medal of the royal Manchester institution 1845 for his picture Solomon Eagle exhorting the people to repentance during the plague, exhibited at the R.A. 1843; sent a cartoon The death of King Lear to Westminster Hall competition 1843, and gained a prize of £300 in same competition 1847 for Edward’s generosity to the people of Calais during the siege; A.R.A. 1846, R.A. 1861; member of Institute of painters in water colours 1878; 26 of his works were exhibited at winter exhibition of the R.A. 1884, with a portrait sketch by Frank Holl, R.A. _d._ Uplands, Green Hill, Hampstead 22 Sept. 1779. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Sandby’s History of royal academy ii_ 311–13 (1862); _Art Journal_ (1879) 263, 278; _I.L.N. xxxviii_ 175, 176 (1861) _portrait_; _Graphic xx_ 376 (1879) _portrait_. POOLE, REGINALD STUART (younger brother of Edward Stanley Poole 1830–67). _b._ London 27 Feb. 1832; lived with his mother at Cairo 1842–9; ascended the Nile twice to study the monuments; contributed a series of articles to the Literary gazette 1849, republished in 1851 under title of Horæ Ægyptiacæ or the chronology of ancient Egypt; an assistant in the department of antiquities in the British Museum 26 Feb. 1852, assistant keeper in department of coins and medals July 1866, keeper 29 Oct. 1870, retired 1893; edited and collated 35 volumes of catalogues, chiefly of coins and medals, four of which and part of a fifth he wrote himself; sent by trustees of British Museum to report on antiquities at Cyprus and Alexandria 1869; lectured on Greek, Egyptian and medallic art to students of the Royal academy 1883–5; Yates professor of Archæology at univ. coll. London 1889, resigned 1894; founded with Amelia Betham Edwards the Egypt exploration fund 1882, honorary secretary to his death; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1880; founded with Alphonso Legros the Society of English medallists 1884; author of The cities of Egypt 1882; and with Sophia Poole, Cairo, Sinai, sixty views 1860; Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem, twenty views 1860. _d._ 2 Gladstone’s road. West Kensington, London 8 Feb. 1895. _S. Lane-Poole’s Life of E. W. Lane_ (1877) 111–121; _Times 9 Feb. 1895 p._ 5. POOLE, SOPHIA (youngest child of Theophilus Lane, prebendary of Hereford, _d._ 1814). _b._ Hereford 16 Jany. 1804; _m._ 1829 rev. Edward Richard Poole, book collector and bibliographer; lived with her brother Edward Wm. Lane at Cairo 1842–9; author of The Englishwoman in Egypt, published in Knight’s weekly volumes, 2 vols. 1844, and a second series forming vol. iii 1846; wrote with her younger son R. S. Poole the descriptive letterpress of Frith’s Photographic views of Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem 1860–1. _d._ at her son’s house, British Museum, London 6 May 1891. _Academy xxxix_ 466 (1891). POOLE, WILLIAM HOWELL. _b._ 1856; a sailor 1873; appeared at the Standard theatre, London under John Douglass about 1874; at the Surrey as Johnny Lamb in New Babylon; acted in a series of Shakesperian dramas at Drury Lane; at the Adelphi and at the Princess’; played Gilbert Vaughan in Called Back at Prince’s 1884; went on tour with his own dramas and his own company; his dramas were The miracle, Surrey theatre 24 March 1883; My queen, Gaiety 20 March 1884; Adam Bede, Royal Holborn 2 June 1884; Wronged, Olympic 29 July 1885; Holding the mirror, Tyne theatre, Newcastle 26 Oct. 1885; Boys together, Prince of Wales’, Liverpool 28 March 1887; The game of life, Royal Court, Liverpool 15 Aug. 1887; A people’s hero, Vaudeville 12 June 1890; The wheel of fortune, Sadler’s Wells 12 Jany. 1891; Gertie, Royal Park theatre 26 March 1891; he also wrote the following novels On golden wings; New Babylon; The hidden million; A gilded shame, by Owl, 2 vols. 1881; Her wedding morn; _m._ Alice Raynor. _d._ 27 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 1 Feb. POOLEY, ALFRED. _b._ 1839 or 1840; organist of Liverpool cathedral about 1863–74; organist of St. Matthew’s, Sydney, Australia to death. _d._ Sydney 7 March 1896. POOLEY, HENRY. _b._ West Derby, near Liverpool 4 Jany. 1803; partner with his father Henry Pooley (who _d._ 1841) as H. Pooley and son at Albion foundry, Liverpool, 89 Fleet st. London, Wellington st. Gateshead, and Commercial st. Newport, Monmouth 1830, makers of scales, weighbridges, and weighing tables, took out numerous patents; their platform weighing machines are seen in railway stations throughout the world; retired 1872; gave a school to village of Seacombe 1876; A.I.C.E. 21 Jany. 1851. _d._ Home Cross, Liscard, Cheshire 1 Sept. 1878. _G. L. M. Strauss’s England’s workshops_ (1864) 26–9; _Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lv_ 331–33 (1879); _Pooley’s Patent weighing apparatus_ (1859). POOLEY, JOHN HENRY (only son of Henry Pooley of Kelvedon, Essex). _b._ 17 Oct. 1803; educ. Dedham and St. John’s coll. Camb., 2 senior optime, 3 in first class of classical tripos and B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, B.D. 1837; Norrisian prizeman 1828; fellow of his college 1826–35; C. of St. James’, Piccadilly, London 1832–3; R, of Scotter, near Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1833 to death; rural dean of Corringham 1839; hon. canon of Lincoln 1845 to death; author of The nature and use of parables 1828, Norrisian medal essay: The case of the rev. W. T. Humphreys, missionary at Myaveram 1843. _d._ Scotter rectory 29 April 1895. POPE, HENRY MONTAGUE RANDALL (eld. son of Peter M. Pope, physician, West Malling, Kent). _b._ 21 May 1849; educ. Merchant Taylor’s school 1859–67; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1867–72; B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; Craven scholar 1872; fellow of Lincoln coll. 1872–4; pupil of George Sweet the conveyancer; barrister L.I. 7 June 1873; equity draftsman and conveyancer; one of the originators and the first chairman of the Coffee tavern company limited 1877; published A treatise on the law and practice of lunacy 1877, 2 ed. 1890; The bills of sale act, with notes 1878. _d._ on board the Rodney at sea on his way to Australia 18 Nov. 1880. _Law Times lxx_ 250 (1881). POPE, JOSEPH JOHN (son of Samuel Pope of London, merchant). _b._ 1836; L.S.A. 1857; M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.M. 1857; senior house surgeon Liverpool south hospital; assist. surgeon in royal artillery 1 April 1861, retired as a surgeon 1 Dec. 1873; professor of hygiene Birkbeck institute; lecturer to National health association, lectured throughout England and Scotland; secretary to William Holland, the peoples’ caterer; contributed to sporting and social periodicals, wrote in The Sporting Times under the signature of Jope, and was the author of many of the best jokes in that paper; he wrote Clothing, simple lessons for home use 1877; Number one and how to take care of him, a series of popular talks 1883; Health, its friends and foes. _d._ 4 South crescent, Bedford sq. London 6 April 1885. _Sporting Times 11 April 1885 p._ 1; _Medical Times i_ 499 (1885), _14 March 1891 p._ 2. POPE, MRS. _b._ Settle, Yorkshire 1809; first appeared on stage at Hastings as Mrs. Haller in the Stranger; leading actress at Birmingham, Bristol and other places; went to America 1846, appeared at Bowery theatre, New York as Margaret Elmore 2 Nov. 1846; made a tour in southern and western states; acted Mrs. Haller at the Arch theatre, Philadelphia 14 Jany, 1847; the Lady Macbeth at Astor place opera house at time of Macready-Forrest riots in New York 7 May 1849; acted Romeo at Academy of music, New York 1852; reappeared at a benefit tendered her at Indianapolis, Indiana 25 May 1878; _m._ William Coleman Pope, he went mad and committed suicide 1 June 1868; she _d._ Indianapolis 16 March 1880. POPE-HENNESSY, SIR JOHN (3 son of John Hennessy of Ballyhennessy, co. Kerry). _b._ Cork 1834; educ. Queen’s coll. Cork; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1861; M.P. King s county 1859–65, being the first Roman catholic conservative member; governor of Labuan and consul general in Borneo 21 Nov. 1867, returned to England 2 Oct. 1871; acting governor of the Gold Coast 27 Feb. 1872 to 16 Feb. 1873; governor of the Bahamas 27 May 1873, came home on leave 22 June 1874 and never returned; governor of the Windward islands and Barbados 1875–6, was very popular with the negroes but unpopular with the planters, who passed a motion to address the queen for his recall 17 May 1876; governor of Hong Kong Nov. 1876, arrived there 23 April 1877, quarrelled with the commander-in-chief and was censured by the colonial office, retired from office 7 March 1882; presented with freedom of city of Cork 3 March 1877; chairman of the repression of crime section at the Social science congress at Nottingham Sept. 1882; governor of the Mauritius 26 Dec. 1882, very popular with the French creoles but unpopular with the English, was suspended by the royal commissioner sir Hercules Robinson 16 Dec. 1886, went to London Jany. 1887 where lord Knutsford the colonial secretary decided 12 July 1887 that sufficient cause had not been shown for his removal, returned to Mauritius 1887, retired on pension 16 Dec. 1889; bought Rostellan castle, near Cork 1890; M.P. North Kilkenny Dec. 1890 to death; author of Raleigh in Ireland 1883. _d._ Rostellan castle 7 Oct. 1891. POPHAM, BRUNSWICK (2 son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. 1762–1820). _b._ 1805; entered navy 11 Dec. 1817, present in the battle of Navarino 1827; captain 28 June 1838; admiral on half pay 10 Sept. 1869. _d._ Cardean Meigle, Forfarshire 6 Feb. 1878. POPHAM, FRANCIS LEYBOURNE- (2 son of lieut. general Edward William Popham of Littlecote, Wilts. 1764–1843). _b._ 14 Oct. 1809; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of All Souls’ 1831–43; barrister LL. 21 Nov. 1837; kept some mares at Littlecote, his horse Wild Dayrell won the Derby 1855. _d._