William Poole
Personal information
Born6 April 1871
Clifton, Bristol
Died13 December 1946(1946-12-13) (aged 75)
Rye, East Sussex
Sport
SportRowing
ClubOxford University Boat Club

William Mansfield Poole (6 April 1871 – 13 December 1946) was an educationalist and author of several widely held academic text books.[1][2][3][4] He had a particular gift for languages and was an early head of Modern Languages at the Royal Naval College, Osborne.[2][5] In his youth he was also an accomplished oarsman, and rowed for Oxford in the 1891 Boat Race.[6]

Life

Poole was born on 6 April 1871 in Clifton, then in the county of Gloucestershire.[7] He was the son of Canon Robert Burton Poole, who was then a master at Clifton College and would later be headmaster of Bedford Modern School between 1877 and 1900.[8][9]

Poole was educated at Bedford Modern School, where he was in the First IV from 1887 to 1889; the first XV from 1886 to 1888; captain of the team in 1887 and 1888.[6] During his time in the IV the school three times won the Public School Challenge Cup at Marlow Regatta and the Public School Cup twice at Barnes and Mortlake Regatta.[6] In 1889 he stroked the first coxswainless Public School IV to row at Henley.[6] Going up to Magdalen College, Oxford, he rowed in the 1891 Boat Race.[10]

After Oxford, Poole joined the staff of Merchant Taylors School.[6] He went abroad to increase his knowledge of French and German before being appointed Modern Language Master to the Black Prince, a training ship for naval cadets.[6] He went with them when they were removed to the Royal Naval College, Osborne, where he became head of modern languages.[6] After Osborne he became senior modern language master at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.[6] During his career he was the author of several text books.[3] On retirement, Poole and his wife started a school in Brussels for English girls coming there to perfect their colloquial French.[2] After about ten years he returned to England and settled in Beckley.[6]

In 1908, Poole married the Hon. Millicent Chance Foster, daughter of Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston.[11] They had one son and two daughters.[2] Poole died in the District Memorial Hospital in Rye on 13 December 1946.[12] His estate was left to his son, Major Evered Mansfield Poole.[12]

Selected works

  • Poucinet; es- tu content? ou L'histoire des nez; and Les douze mois, by William Mansfield Poole and Édouard René Lefebvre Laboulaye. Published 1901[13]
  • French Commercial Correspondence. Published by John Murray, 1902[14]
  • French & German Picture Vocabulary, by W.Mansfield Poole, M.A. London. Published by John Murray, 1904[15]
  • Lectures Françaises. Géographie Et Histoire, by William Mansfield Poole and Michel Becker, Published London 1905
  • Commercial French, New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Limited, 1916 by William Mansfield Poole[3][16]
  • Textes et questions: Classes élémentaires, by William Mansfield Poole and E. L. Lassimonne. Published by John Murray, 1918[17]
  • Conversations en classe, by William Mansfield Poole. Published by John Murray, 1926[18]
  • Grammaire française élémentaire avec exercices, by William Mansfield Poole. Published by John Murray, 1937[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Educational Times and Journal of the College of Preceptors, January to December 1907". Mocavo. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, Published 1928
  3. 1 2 3 "Commercial French". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Kellys Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes for 1923". Mocavo. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Poole, William Mansfield 1871– [WorldCat Identities]".
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Obituary in The Eagle, Bedford Modern School, Easter 1947, Vol. XXVI No.2
  7. ↑ England 1911 Census
  8. ↑ Oxford Men and Their Colleges 1880–1892
  9. ↑ School of the Black and Red-A History of Bedford Modern School by Andrew Underwood (1981); reset and updated by Peter Boon, Paul Middleton and Richard Wildman, 2010
  10. ↑ "Oxford men, 1880–1892, with a record of their schools, honours and degrees. Illustrated with portraits and views". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  11. ↑ "Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for ..., including all the titled classes". Mocavo. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  12. 1 2 England & Wales, Death Index, 1916–2007
  13. ↑ Poucinet; es- tu content? ou L'histoire des nez; and Les douze mois ... Edited with notes, vocabulary, etc. by W. M. Poole. OCLC 819372364.
  14. ↑ French commercial correspondence. OCLC 29880693.
  15. ↑ A French and German picture vocabulary. OCLC 30949643.
  16. ↑ Commercial French in two parts. OCLC 669362389.
  17. ↑ Textes et questions. OCLC 47778686.
  18. ↑ Conversations en classe. OCLC 30949625.
  19. ↑ Grammaire française élémentaire avec exercices. OCLC 30949655.
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