[Illustration] This is an ancient Cheshire family, who settled in
the county of Devon in the reign of Richard II., Arthur Pole, their
ancestor, having married the heiress of Pole of Honiton. The
representative of the family, the learned antiquary Sir William
Pole, resided at Chute in the early part of the seventeenth century,
though the fee of that manor, once the inheritance of the noble
family of Bonvile, did not belong to the Poles till it was purchased
by Sir John Pole, Baronet, in 1787.
See Prince's Worthies of Devon, p. 504; Wotton's Baronetage, ii.
124; Lysons, cix. 442.
ARMS.--_Azure, semée of fleurs-de-lis or, a lion rampant argent_.
Present Representative, Sir John George Reeve De-la-Pole Pole, 8th
Baronet.