Sir Reginald Ward Edward Lane Poole, KCVO (23 November 1864 – 11 August 1941) was a prominent British

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who became President of the Law Society and, according to ''

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'', "to the public at large perhaps the best known solicitor of his day".Obituary, ''

'', 12 August 1941, p. 6

Biography

Poole was born in

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, London, the son of Professor Reginald Stuart Poole of London and Eliza Christina Forlonge of

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. He was educated at

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and at the

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. He was articled to

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in 1887, admitted as a solicitor in 1891, and became a partner of Lewis and Lewis, one of the best known legal firms in the country, in 1894, becoming sole partner of the firm in 1927. He was a member of the Council of

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, between 1919 and 1940, President of the Law Society, between 1933 and 1934, Chairman of the Discipline Committee of

, a Member of the

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on Police Powers and Procedure, in 1929, and a Member of the Committee appointed by the

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to consider the Law of Defamation, in 1939. Poole was made a

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in the

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, gazetted on 1 June 1928,''

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'' Issue 33390, 1 June 1928 (Supplement)
p. 3846
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in 1934. He died in London on 11 August 1941, aged 76.

References

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