Austin Lane Poole, FBA (6 December 1889 – 22 February 1963) was a British mediaevalist. Poole came from an academic lineage, being the son of

Reginald Lane Poole Reginald Lane Poole, FBA (1857–1939) was a British historian. He was Keeper of the Archives and a lecturer in diplomatics at the University of Oxford, where he gave the Ford Lectures in 1912 on the subject of "The Exchequer in the Twelfth Cent ...

(archive keeper at the

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), the nephew of Stanley Lane Poole (professor of Arabic at

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), and the great-nephew of

Reginald Stuart Poole Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 18328 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was from a famous Orientalist family as his mother Sophia Lane Poole, his uncle Edward William Lane an ...

(professor of archaeology at

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). Austin Poole studied at Magdalen College School and

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. He later taught at

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and St John's College, Oxford. He became a

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and subsequently

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of the latter and was also a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. During the

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, Poole served as a lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment. Austin Poole contributed the third volume of the '' Oxford History of England'', ''From Domesday Book to Magna Carta 1087–1216'', published 1951. He also edited collections of poetry by

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. He delivered the

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in 1944. Poole was a tutor in modern history at St John's College, Oxford from 1913 and from 14 February 1947 to 1957 was the President of the college.John's College
, ''A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford'' (1954), pp. 251–264.

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. Date accessed: 11 July 2011.

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Who's who: Austin Lane Poole
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