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.

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.

POCOCKE, ROBERT, son of Rev. Edward Pococke DD, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford Univ., and Mary, dau. of Thomas Burdet, West Worldham, Hampshire; bapt. Childrey, Berks., 15 May 1657 (IGI); adm.; KS 1671; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 May 1673, aged 15, Canoneer Student 25 Jul 1673 – void 1701; BA 6 Feb 1676/7; MA 1679; ordained deacon (Oxford) 6 Jun 1680; perhaps living Long Ditton, Surrey, in 1691. [will of Rev. Robert Pocock, Rector of Long Ditton, Surrey, proved PCC 3 Aug 1714]

Pocock, Thomas Allcot Guy, son of Guy Noel Pocock, novelist and BBC ed., and Dorothy Allcot, d. of Rt. Rev. John Phillips Allcot Bowers DD, Bishop of Thetford; b. 18 Aug. 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (G); left July 1939; small ships and war correspondent in WW2; a journalist and author; foreign correspondent Hulton Press 1944-8; naval correspondent Daily Mail 1950-3, The Times 1953-6; Daily Express staff 1956-8; defence correspondent, Evening Standard 1959-73; travel editor, Evening Standard 1973-82; self-employed author & journalist; author, many books on naval history; d. 7 May 2007.

POCLINGTON, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1644 (Chapter Muniments 32460).

POCKLINGTON, HENRY SHARPE, second son of Henry Sharpe Pocklington, Gloucester, [banker ?] and Anne Harvey; b. 29 Dec 1802; adm. 11 Apr 1817 (Best's); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1819, scholar 24 Apr 1820; BA 1823; MA 1827; ordained; Curate, Chelsworth, Suffolk 18 Jun 1826; Perpetual Curate of Overton, Lancs., 13 Dec 1827; Vicar of Stebbing, Essex, from 5 Aug 1831; m. 8 Aug 1827 Amelia Georgina, dau. of Major-Gen. George Stracey Smith, Governor of New Brunswick; d. 23 Jul 1842.

PLUMSTEAD, AUGUSTINE, son of Augustine Plumstead, Beccles, Suffolk, and Anne Mott (IGI); bapt. 23 Oct 1634; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll, Cambridge 1654, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1654, scholar 1655; BA 1657/8; Fellow Trinity Coll. 1659 – c. 1661, when he lost his Fellowship and was denied the degree of MA on his refusing to conform; minister of dissenting congregation at Wrentham, Suffolk (licensed 8 May 1672); began compilation of a double concordance to the Bible, never completed; d. 10 Jan 1715. [presumably m. 1st, 20 Oct 1674 Jane Stifling (IGI); m. 2nd, 29 Apr 1677 Martha Micleborough (IGI)]

PLUMPTON, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1568, Westminster Student to 1577; BA 26 Feb 1571/2; MA 1575; he appears to have got into trouble with the Privy Council in 1577 for “certain lewde speeches” against Queen Elizabeth I, and was bound over to appear “if nede shall require” (Acts of the Privy Council, New Series, ix, pp 300, 348).