POOLE, JAMES, son of Rev. James Poole, Rector of Stretton Grandison, Herefs., and Ann, dau. of John Jauncey, Whitwick, Herefordshire; bapt. Stretton Grandison, Herefs. 3 Feb 1686 (sic ) (IGI); adm.; QS 1702; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1706, matr. 27 May 1706, aged 17, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1706 – void 1722; BA 1710; MA 18 Mar 1712/3; ordained; Vicar of Stretton Grandison, Herefs., 25 Apr 1721 – Apr 1744, res.; m. Anne, dau. of Franceis Wadeley, Glasbury, Radnorshire. [will proved PCC 7 Sep 1765, sic] [died 1764 : check]

POPE, EDWARD, son of Ebenezer Pope, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, and Anna Maria, dau. of Thomas Eves, Clifford, Herefs.; bapt. St. Clement Danes 15 Feb 1794; in school lists 1801; KS (aged 14) 1808; left Christmas 1811; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Apr 1812; migrated to Queen’s Coll., exhibitioner 1815-6, scholar 1816-20; BA 1816; MA 1819; BD and DD 1836; Fellow, Queen’s Coll. 1820-7; ordained; Archdeacon of Jamaica; m. 1st, 10 Jun 1825 Augusta, sister of Charles Richard Bigge (qv); m. 2nd, [?] Mary Jane, dau. of John Campbell, Jamaica; d. Feb 1855.

POPE, GEORGE, son of Roger Pope MP, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Sir John Weld, Kt, Willey, Shropshire; bapt. Willey, Shropshire 9 Mar 1670 (IGI); adm.; KS 1685; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1688, matr. 29 Jun 1688, aged 17, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1688 – void 1705; BA 1692; MA 13 Mar 1694/5; adm. Inner Temple 1691.

POPE, ROGER, son of Roger Pope MP, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and his second wife Elizabeth Bromidge (IGI); half-brother of George Pope (qv); bapt. Woolstaston, Shropshire 9 Jan 1689/90; adm.; QS 1704; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1707, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1707, aged 17, scholar 19 Apr 1708; BA 1710/1; buried Woolstaston, Shropshire 24 Jan 1748.

POPE, WALTER, son of --- Pope, and Jane, widow of Walter Wilkins, Oxford, goldsmith, and dau. of Rev. John Dod, Rector of Fawsley, Northants [or Hanwell, Oxfordshire ?]; half-brother of Right Rev. John Wilkins DD, Bishop of Chester and Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1645, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1645, scholar 1645; migrated to Wadham Coll. Oxford, scholar 1648; BA 1649; MA 1651 (incorp. Cambridge 1657); MD 1661; Fellow, Wadham Coll. 9 Jul 1651 – 27 Jun 1662, Bursar 1655, 1657, Sub-Warden 1658, Dean 1660-1; Junior Proctor 1658; while Proctor suvccessfully resisted the attempt of Edward Bagshaw (qv) and others to abolish the wearing of gowns and hoods; Professor of Astronomy, Gresham Coll., London 1660 – 21 Sep 1687, res.; an original member, Royal Society 20 May 1663; obtained licence to travel 1664 and spent two years in Italy; Registrar, Diocese of Chester, from 1668; an intimate friend of Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, of whom he wrote a biography, published in 1697; author, Select Novels from Cervantes and Petrarch, 1694, and other works; d. 25 Jun 1714. DNB.

POPHAM, GEORGE MUNRO, son of Stephen Popham (KS 1759, qv); bapt. Madras 1 May 1779; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1795; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1794; Ensign 19 Oct 1795; Lieut., 23rd Native Infantry 15 Mar 1797; Capt., 26 Feb 1805; Maj., 1 Jun 1813; Lieut. -Col., 1 Mar 1818; CB 26 Jul 1823; d. unm. 22 Oct 1824.

POPHAM, STEPHEN, fourth son of Joseph Popham, HBM Consul Tetuan, Morocco, and his first wife Mary Riggs, Waterford; b. 5 Jul 1745; adm.; KS 1759; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1763, scholar 25 Jun 1764, matr. 1764; 4th Wrangler 1767; BA 1767; MA 1774; adm. Middle Temple 14 Apr 1762, Lincoln’s Inn 28 Nov 1772; attorney; MP (I) Castlebar 1776-83; went out to India as Secretary to Sir John Day, Advocate-Gen. Bengal, 1777; arrived Madras Feb 1778, and after a quarrel with Day went into practice at Madras as an attorney; Joint Solicitor to EI Company at Madras from 14 Jun 1782; m. 1st, at Paris 5 Apr 1768 (divorced 14 Jun 1774) Ann Yate Whiteside; m. 2nd, 16 Nov 1774 Anna, dau. of Sir William Thomas, Bart.; d. at Conjeeveram, Madras 13 Jun 1795, as a result of a fall from his curricle.

Popplewell, Geoffrey Douglas, son of Herbert Alfred Popplewell, of Sidcup, Kent, by Norah Mabel, daughter of the Rev. George Smith, Vicar of St. Paul's, Bunhill Row, London; b. Aug. 7, 1904; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1918; left (with Triplett) July 1923; Brasenose Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1923; B.A. 1926; M.A. 1962; Tanganyika Administrative Service, cadet 1927, asst. district officer May 1929; district officer 1940; senior D.O. 1950; deputy provincial commissioner 1955; acting prov. comm. 1955; retired 1957; author of several geographical, geological and ethnological articles on the Tanganyika Territory; m. 1st, 1931, Marjorie Helen, daughter of Kenneth Macdonald, of lnvernesshire; d. 1945; 2nd, 1947, Isabel Diana Elisabeth, daughter of Maj. Philip Mathews, O.B.E., commissioner of police, British Honduras; d. 18 July 1994.

PORTER, WILLIAM, son of John Porter, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 7) May 1744, chorister; KS 1749; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1754, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1754, scholar 18 Apr 1755, matr. Lent 1755; BA 1758; MA 1761; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1759, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1761; ordained; Curate, Woolwich, Kent; Vicar of Cobham, Kent, from Jul 1766; Reader, Highgate Chapel; Headmaster, Highgate School, from 1780; m. c. Nov 1761 Mary Horner, Tothill Street, Westminster; d. 11 Jun 1793.

PORTLOCK, BENJAMIN; b.; adm.; KS 1677; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1682, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1682, scholar 9 May 1683; 6th in “ordo” 1685/6; BA 1685/6; MA 1689 (incorp. Oxford 9 Nov 1695); DCL Oxford 18 May 1702; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 12 Sep 1687, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1689 – c. 1698; Second Secretary to Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieut. Ireland, Feb 1703 – Apr 1707; MP (I) Innistioge 1703-13; Taster of Wines (I) 1705-13; adm. King’s Inns, Dublin 18 Nov 1703; of Clapham, Surrey; left by his will mourning rings to Robert Friend (qv) and John Nicholl (qv); lic. to m. 29 Feb 1711/2 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Bate, Maids Moreton, Bucks.; d. 6 Sep 1740.