English orientalist and author; born in London, on the 18th of December 1854. He was educated under the direction of his great uncle, E. W. Lane, the orientalist, and graduated at Corpus Christi, Oxford, in 1878. His first important work was a Catalogue of the Oriental Coins in the British Museum (8 vols., 1875–83), to which he added a Catalogue of Indian Coins (3 vols., 1884–92); Additions to the Oriental Collection (2 vols., 1890); and a Catalogue of Arabic Glass Weights (1891). After the death of his great uncle, Lane-Poole took up his Arabic Lexicon, and brought out volumes 6, 7 and 8 (1877–93). He also wrote a Life of E. W. Lane (1877). Among other works he published Life of Stratford Canning (1888); Social Life in Egypt (1883); and The Life of Sir Harry Parkes, with F. V. Dickens (1894). In all, he published about 60 volumes. (See authored article: Sir Richard Francis Burton.)
