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 (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 (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

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. 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 ''

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'', ''From Domesday Book to Magna Carta 1087–1216'', published 1951. He also edited collections of poetry by

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. He delivered the Ford Lectures in 1944. Poole was a tutor in

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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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