Reginald L. Poole

Reginald Lane Poole, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (1857–1939) was a British historian. He was Keeper of the Archives (University of Oxford), 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 Century". Son of Edward Stanley Poole, the "Lane" in his surname comes from his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole, author of ''An Englishwoman in Egypt'' (1844). He was the father of Austin Lane Poole (1889–1963), also a historian and Ford's Lecturer; the brother of the orientalist Stanley Lane-Poole; the nephew of Reginald Stuart Poole; and the great-nephew of Edward William Lane.

He edited, among other works, with William Hunt (clergyman), W. Hunt, ''Political History of England'' (twelve volumes, 1905–10).

His works include:
*''History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion'' (1880)
*''Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought'' (1884)
*''Wycliffe and Movements for Reform'' (1889)
*''Historical Atlas of Modern Europe'' (1897–1902)
*''Lectures on the History of the Papal Chancery'' (1915)

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1857 births
1939 deaths
British historians
English archivists
Keepers of the Archives of the University of Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy
Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America

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