Celebrating Hampshire Historians

Poole, E H (Edward Humphrey) Lane

1889 - 1961

E H Lane Poole was from a distinguished Oxford family. His father, Professor Reginald Lane Poole (1857–1939) was a historian and Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University, while his brother Austin (1889–1963) was a medievalist, and President of St John’s College.

E H Lane Poole was also at Oxford, graduating from Balliol, but in 1913 he chose a diplomatic career becoming a pioneer administrator in Central Africa.  He was there for more than a quarter of a century, becoming District Commissioner at Petauke in Northern Rhodesia, retiring in 1939.

He continued to work for the Home Office during the war, but in the post-war period devoted his energies to ‘A Study in Local History’, in compiling an account of Damerham and Martin in the far west of the county.  This work was completed by 1953, but not published until 1976, some fifteen years after his death.

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Portrait

Contribution to county’s history

A ‘meticulous’ study of the parishes of Damerham and Martin. A traditional local history but also an ‘excellent example of its genre’ (review by Peter Fowler, Archaeol Journ 135)  

Relevant published works

• Damerham and Martin – A Study in Local History, (1976) 230pp Compton Russell Ltd, Tisbury.

• Scratch Dials at All Saints Church, Martin, Proc Hants Field Club & Archaeol Soc 16, 284-6.


• A history of Bustard Farm for Mr Baker

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Dave Allen, October 2021

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