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POLHILL, JOHN BOSANQUET, son of Rev. Robert Polhill, Vicar of Goudhurst, Kent, and Mellicent ---; bapt. Goudhurst 23 Oct 1771; adm. 13 Jan 1785; KS (aged 13) 1785; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1790, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1790 [check], scholar 6 May 1791; BA 1794; MA 1797; Whitehall Preacher 1799; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1796, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1797; ordained deacon (lit. dim. from Canterbury) 1794, priest (Winchester) 12 Mar 1797; Curate, Goudhurst, Kent 1794, Worplesdon, Surrey 1797; Rector of Hadleigh, Essex, from 17 May 1802; Chaplain to HRH Duke of York; m. Eliza, only dau. of Walter Barton May, Hadlow Castle, Kent; d. 1825 (will proved PCC 21 Apr 1825).

POLE, GERMAN, son of German Pole, Conduit Street, London, and his second wife Mary, dau. of Robert Gayer, Stoke Poges, Bucks.; b.; adm. (aged 11) Mar 1739/40 (Hutton's); St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 11 Feb 1747; d. unm. 17 Mar 1765.

POLE, FREDERIC FRANCIS; b. 18 Jun 1804; adm. 16 Mar 1818; left 1820; emigrated to Canada c. 1847; customs agent, Whitby, Ontario; m. (by 1833) Anna Maria – (IGI); d. Toronto, Canada 1889.

POLE, EVAN WILLIAMS, youngest son of William Pole MICE MusDoc FRS, Westminster, civil engineer, and Matilda, youngest dau. of Rev. Henry Gauntlett, Vicar of Olney, Bucks.; b. 4 Jul 1859; adm. 22 Sep 1870; QS 1874; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1878, matr. 11 Oct 1878; BA 1882; MA 1885; ordained 1892; Assistant Master, King Edward VI School, Louth, Lincs., 1882-4, Bradfield Coll. 1885-95, Dulwich Coll. 1897-8; a violinist; m. 14 Oct 1908 Laura Elizabeth, second dau. of James Weston, Lutton, Northants; d. Dec 1930.

POLE, C. W.; b.; at school under Carey; member, OW Cricket Club in 1828. [Quite probably Charles William Pole, b. c. 1805; extra clerk, Committee Office, House of Commons 1824, Committee Clerk 1831, Assistant Clerk 1849, Senior Clerk 1853, Principal Clerk 1864, retired 1872, m. (by 1842) Ellen ---, d. 12 Dec 1894].

Poland, Raymond Denham, son of John Poland, F.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone, by Mary Roberts, daughter of James G. Denham, of Edinburgh; b. Nov. 11, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (H); left Easter 1905; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. London Regt. July 19, 1916; Lieut. Jan. 19, 1918; d. Oct. 14, 1947.

POLAND, ERNEST, youngest son of Richard Henry Poland, Eliot Vale, Blackheath, Kent, fur merchant, and Harriet, dau. of John Allan, Whitby, Yorks.; b. 7 Jul 1862; adm. 26 Apr 1876 (H, G); left Aug 1881; fur and skin merchant, firm P. R. Poland & Son, Queen Victoria Street, London; one of the founders and Vice-Presidents, London Fur Trade Association, and a well-known authority on furs; Technical Adviser to British Government for Pelagic Fur Sealing Treaty, 1911; m. 26 Jun 1888 Edith Jane Sophia, dau. of Percy Moses Parsons, Blackheath, Kent; d. 31 Jan 1932.

POINTELL, DANIEL, son of Edward Pointell, Chislehurst, Kent, and Judith, dau. of Daniel Shettenden; bapt. 30 Nov 1623; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1641, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1641, scholar 1642, matr. Easter 1642; BA 1644/5; MA 1648; Rector of Staplehurst, Kent 1648 – Aug 1662, when ejected for refusal to conform; established an Independent congregation there (licensed as Presbyterian minister 10 Aug 1672); m. 8 Nov 1653 Mary, dau. of Ninian Butcher, St. Mary Aldermanbury, London; buried Staplehurst, Kent 12 Jun 1674.