John Pole, 5th Baronet

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John Pole, 5th Baronet with his wife Elizabeth Mills. Painting by Thomas Hudson, 1755

Sir John Pole, 5th Baronet (around 1733 - February 19, 1760 ) was a British nobleman .

origin

John Pole came from the Pole family , a Gentry family from Devon . He was the only son of Sir William Pole, 4th Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Warry . He was still a minor when his father died in 1741 and he became the heir to the family's estates and the title of Baronet , of Shute House in the County of Devon.

Political activity

His father had recommended in his will of 1733 that he should never run for general election as a member of the Honiton borough , where several members of the family had been elected since 1640. Finally, in 1754, Pole ran for a by-election in Taunton , Somerset . He was supported by the local gentry, while the opposing candidate, Robert Maxwell, was supported by Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont , a member of the government. After a six-month, extremely complex and expensive election campaign, Maxwell was finally elected as a member of Parliament in December 1754.

Family and offspring

Pole's first marriage was Elizabeth Mills (1737–1758), a daughter of the banker and plantation owner John Mills from Woodford , Essex . His wife became a co-heir of her father, who also owned a plantation on St. Kitts in the West Indies. With his wife he had a son:

In her second marriage, Pole married Anna Maria Palmer, the daughter of a Reverend Palmer. The marriage remained childless. His heir became his only son, John.

Web links

Commons : Sir John Pole, 5th Baronet  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RG Thorne: DE LA POLE, Sir John William, 6th Bt. (1757-99), of Shute House, no. Axminster, Devon. (History of Parliament Online). Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Shirley Matthews: POLE, Sir William, 4th Bt. (1678–1741), of Colcombe Castle, no. Colyton and Shute, no. Honiton, Devon. (History of Parliament Online, Ref Volumes: 1715-1754). Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
  3. ^ History of Parliament Online: Taunton, Ref. Volumes 1754–1790. Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
  4. ^ RG Thorne: DE LA POLE, Sir John William, 6th Bt. (1757-99), of Shute House, no. Axminster, Devon. (History of Parliament Online). Retrieved November 6, 2017 .
predecessor Office successor
William Pole Pole Baronet, of Shute House
1741–1760 		John Pole
personal data
SURNAME Pole, John, 5th Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pole, Sir John, 5th Baronet (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1733
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1760