William Mansfield Poole
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]
Life
William Mansfield Poole was born on 6 April 1871 in Clifton, then in the county of Gloucestershire.[6] He was the son of Robert Burton Poole who was then a Master at Clifton College and would later be Headmaster of Bedford Modern School between 1877 and 1900.[7][8] Poole was educated at Bedford Modern School and Magdalen College, Oxford where he took part in the 1891 Boat Race.[9]
Poole was the author of several text books and head of Modern Languages at the Royal Naval College, Osborne.[3] He later lived in Belgium.[2] In 1908, he married the Hon. Millicent Chance Foster, daughter of Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston.[10] They had one son and two daughters.[2]
Poole died in the District Memorial Hospital in Rye on 13 December 1946.[11] 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
- ^ "Educational Times and Journal of the College of Preceptors, January to December 1907". Mocavo. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ a b c d Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, Published 1928
- ^ a b c "Commercial French". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ "Kellys Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes for 1923". Mocavo. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-poole,%20william%20mansfield$1871/ William Mansfield Poole at WorldCat Identities
- ^ England 1911 Census
- ^ Oxford Men and Their Colleges 1880-1892
- ^ 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
- ^ "Oxford men, 1880-1892, with a record of their schools, honours and degrees. Illustrated with portraits and views". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ "Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for ..., including all the titled classes". Mocavo. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007
- ^ England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007
- ^ "Poucinet; es- tu content? ou L'histoire des nez; and Les douze mois ... Edited with notes, vocabulary, etc. by W. M. Poole". worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "French commercial correspondence". worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "A French and German picture vocabulary". worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Commercial French in two parts,". worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Textes et questions". worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Conversations en classe". worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Grammaire française élémentaire avec exercices". worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 June 2015.