1760–1838). _b._ Manaccan vicarage 4 Oct. 1797; entered Bengal
army 1814; ensign 21 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1815, lieut. 1 Feb.
1818; captain 42 N.I. 26 July 1830, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1850
to 1851; lieut. col. of 54 N.I. 1851–6, of 36 N.I. 1856–7,
and of 17 N.I. 1857 to 4 May 1858; commandant Agra 7 March
1856 to 1857; general 13 Dec. 1876; served in Nepaul 1816,
in Ceylon 1818, in Burmah 1824, in Candahar and Afghanistan
1839–42, in the Sutlej campaign 1845; succeeded his brother R.
G. Polwhele at Polwhele, near Truro 31 Oct. 1870. _d._ Tivoli
lodge, Cheltenham 23 May 1885. _J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials
of Afghanistan_ (1843) 141 _et seq._; _G. C. Boase’s Collect.
Cornub._ (1890) 746.
POND, CHARLES ALEXANDER MACLEAN (eld. son of B. C. Pond of
102 Brixton Hill, Surrey). _b._ 1864; educ. St. John’s coll.
Camb., fellow 1890 or 1891 to death, B.A. 1887, M.A. 1890;
Prendergast Greek student at Camb. 1890–2; professor of classics
at Auckland, New Zealand 1890 or 1891 to death. _d_. Auckland 28
Oct. 1893.
POND, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ England 1826; with Felix Spiers
proprietors of the cafe royal Bourke st. Melbourne, Australia;
connected with bringing the first English team of cricketers
to Australia 23 Dec. 1861; with F. Spiers built Criterion
restaurant and theatre 218–223 Piccadilly, London 1873, at
cost of £80,000, the theatre was opened 21 March 1874; wine
and spirit merchants and proprietors of hotels and refreshment
rooms on London, Chatham and Dover, and Metropolitan railways,
also proprietors of the Gaiety restaurant 343 Strand, and of the
Holborn viaduct hotel; resided The Cedars, Herne hill, Surrey.
_d._ Updown house, Margate 30 July 1881. _bur._ Norwood 5 Aug.,
will proved by his widow Emma 23 Nov., personalty £215,000,
bronze statue of him by J. E. Boehm placed on grand staircase
of the Criterion Oct. 1886. _Morning Advertiser 1 Aug. 1881 p._
4, _6 Aug. p._ 2.
POND, RICHARD RADCLIFFE. _b._ 1824; advertising agent at 17
Upper Wellington st. Strand 1850, at 165 Strand 1853–5, and at
1 Exeter Change, Strand 1855–9; lessee of St. James’s and Drury
Lane theatres several times in conjunction with Joseph Stammers;
connected with Peter Morrison of the Bank of deposit; lineally
descended from the earl of Derwentwater; engaged in literary
enterprises with the Broughs, the Mayhews, and Strauss. _d._
1 Albert villas, Albert road, Peckham 10 Feb. 1868. _G. L. M.
Strauss, Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii_ 113–24 (1882).
PONIATOWSKI, _Prince Josef Michel Xaver Johann_ (son of
Stanislas Poniatowski 1754–1833). _b._ Rome 20 Feb. 1816; a
musician, tenor singer, and composer of operas; naturalised in
Tuscany 1848; minister plenipotentiary from Tuscany to Paris
1848–70; naturalised in France 1854–69; lived in London 1870 to
death; his opera Gelmina produced at Covent Garden 4 June 1872;
among his compositions in England were Claude Duval, a song
1871; The flower girl, a ballad 1872; Gelmina, dramma lirico
in tre atti 1872; The stag hunt, song 1873; The lover’s pen,
song 1875; Mass in F for four voices and chorus 1876. _d._ at
his residence, London 3 July 1873. _bur._ Chislehurst 8 July.
_Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire xii_ 1391 (1874).
PONSFORD, JOHN. _b._ Modbury, Devon 1790; studied in Rome;
painted portraits in oil at Plymouth, the best portrait painter
of his day in Devon; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I.,
and 5 at Suffolk st. 1823–57. _d._ London 1870. _G. Pycroft’s
Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 106.
PONSONBY, JOHN PONSONBY, 1 Viscount (eld. son of 1 baron
Ponsonby 1744–1806). _b._ 1770; M.P. Tallagh 1793–1807; M.P.
Dungarvan 1798–1800; M.P. Galway 1801–2; succeeded his father as
2 baron Ponsonby 5 Nov. 1806; the handsomest man of his time;
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres
28 Feb. 1826, and at Rio Janeiro 12 Feb. 1828; sent on a special
mission to Belgium 1 Dec. 1830; envoy extraordinary at Naples 8
June to 9 Nov. 1832; ambassador at Constantinople 27 Nov. 1832
to 1 March 1837, and at Vienna 10 Aug. 1846 to 31 May 1850;
G.C.B. 3 March 1834; created viscount Ponsonby of Imokilly, co.
Cork 20 April 1839; author of Private letters on the Eastern
question, written at the date thereon, Brighton 1854. _d._
Brighton 21 Feb. 1855. _Lamington’s Days of the dandies_ (1890)
75–9; _Sir H. Lytton Bulwer’s Historical characters ii_ 369–70
(1868); _Abbé van Geel’s The Guet-ā-pens diplomacy of lord
Ponsonby at Brussels_ 1831.
PONSONBY, EMILY CHARLOTTE MARY (3 dau. of 4 earl of Bessborough
1781–1847). _b._ Margaret st. London 17 Feb. 1817; author of the
following novels, most of them originally published anonymously,
The discipline of life, 3 vols. 1848. 2 ed. 1848; Pride and
irresolution, 3 vols. 1850, a new series of the former book;
Clare abbey, or the trials of youth, 2 vols. 1851; Mary Gray and
other tales and verses 1852; Edward Willoughby, a tale, 2 vols.
1854; The young lord, 2 vols. 1856; Sunday readings 1857; The
two brothers, 3 vols. 1858; A mother’s trial 1859; Katherine
and her sisters 1861, 2 ed. 1863; Mary Lyndsay, 3 vols. 1863;
Violet Osborne, 3 vols. 1865; Sir Owen Fairfax, 3 vols. 1866; A
story of two cousins 1868; Nora, 3 vols. 1870; Oliver Beaumont
and lord Latimer, 3 vols. 1873. _d._ 3 Feb. 1877. _D. J.
O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland_, _part iii_, _p._ 206 (1892).
PONSONBY, FREDERICK JOHN (3 son of sir Frederick Cavendish
Ponsonby 1783–1837). _b._ 21 March 1837; educ. Harrow 1850–5,
and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1862; champion tennis
player at Oxford; C. of St. Giles, Reading 1862–7; chaplain of
Hampton court palace 1867–8; R. of Brington, Northants 1868–77;
V. of St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1877 to death; rural
dean of St. Pancras 1877; a member of the English church union;
took a great interest in devotional retreats. _d._ 3 Cambridge
place, Regent’s park, London 3 Feb. 1894. _Church portrait
journal v_ 41 (1884) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 10 Feb. 1894 p._ 163
_portrait_; _Daily Graphic 8 Feb. 1894 p._ 4 _portrait_.
PONSONBY, SIR HENRY FREDERICK (eld. son of sir Frederic
Cavendish Ponsonby, major general 1783–1837). _b._ Corfu 10
Dec. 1825; ensign 49 foot 27 Dec. 1842; lieut. grenadier guards
16 Feb. 1844, major 27 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 April 1870;
A.D.C. to lords Clarendon and St. Germans, lord lieutenants of
Ireland 1847–58; served in Crimean war 1855–6; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1880;
equerry to prince Albert 1856–61; private secretary and extra
equerry to the queen 8 April 1870 to May 1895, and keeper of the
privy purse 8 Oct. 1878 to May 1895; C.B. 26 Aug. 1872, K.C.B.
12 March 1879, G.C.B. 21 June 1887; P.C. 20 April 1880; a hard
worker and a faithful servant in the service of the queen. _d._
East Cowes, Isle of Wight 21 Nov. 1895. _bur._ Whippingham. _St.
James’s Budget 29 Nov. 1895 p._ 5 _portrait_; _Strand mag. Dec.
1892 p._ 588, 5 _portraits_; _Times 22 Nov. 1895 p._ 7; _Graphic
30 Nov. 1895 p._ 672 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 30 Nov. 1895 p._ 671
_portrait_.
PONSONBY, RICHARD (3 son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806).
_b._ Dublin 1772; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin 3 July 1817,
installed 8 July; bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora 1828;
translated to Derry patent dated 21 Sept. 1831, enthroned 2
Oct., the bishopric of Raphoe was united to Derry in pursuance
of the Church temporalities act Sept. 1834; president of Church
education society; author of A sermon 1834. _d._ the Palace,
Derry 27 Oct. 1853. _G.M. xl_ 630 (1853).
PONTON, MUNGO (only son of John Ponton, farmer). _b._ Balgreen,
near Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1802; admitted writer to the signet 8
Dec. 1825; a founder of National bank of Scotland 21 March
1825, secretary 1825–46; communicated to the Society of arts
for Scotland 29 May 1839 a simple method of preparing paper for
photographic drawing in which the use of any salt of silver
is dispensed with, in this paper he announced the discovery
that the action of sunlight renders bichromate of potassium
insoluble, a discovery which forms the basis of nearly all the
photo-mechanical processes now in use; F.R.S. Edinb. 1834;
author of The sanctuary, its lessons and worship 1849; The
material universe, its vastness and durability 1863; Earthquakes
and volcanoes 1868, 2 ed. 1888; The beginning, its when and
its how 1871; Glimpses of the future life 1873; Songs of the
soul 1877; The freedom of the truth 1878. _d._ Clifton 3 Aug.
1880. _H. B. Pritchard’s Year book of photography for 1882_,
_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.
1883. _Northamptonshire Notes and queries i_ 15–17, 73 (1886);
_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.