English historian, son of R. S. Poole; born in London in 1856; was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1878. He was chosen to fill the chair of modern history at Jesus College in 1886. He published History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion at the Recall of the Edict of Nantes (1880); Sebastian Bach, in the Great Musician Series (1882); History of Medieval Thought in the Departments of Theology and Ecclesiastical Politics (1884); and translated Land’s Principles of Hebrew Grammar (1876). He contributed the article on Wycliffe to this Encyclopædia.
