William Pole (politician, 1614)

Sir William Pole (before December 6, 1614 , † around January 17, 1648 ) was an English nobleman and politician who was once elected as a member of the House of Commons .

William Pole came from the Pole family, a gentry family from Devon , which was strongly puritanical at the beginning of the 17th century . William Pole was baptized on December 6, 1614, the eldest son of Sir John Pole, 1st Baronet and his first wife Elizabeth How . Through the influence of his father, he was elected in the general election in the autumn of 1640 as a member of the Borough Honiton in Devon . But while his father as Puritans during the English Civil War , the Parliament supported, supported poles King Charles I , which is why he was expelled in 1642 from the House of Commons. In 1641 he was knighted .

Pole was married twice. In his first marriage he had married Grace Trenchard , a daughter of Sir Thomas Trenchard . After the death of his first wife in 1639, he married Catharine St Barbe , a daughter of Henry St Barbe , for the second time . Pole died in early 1648 and was buried on January 20, 1648. He had four daughters, but since he died with no surviving male offspring, his possessions returned to his father. His family was not fined for participating in the civil war. His father's heir was now his younger brother Courtenay Pole .

Web links

• Sir William Pole on thepeerage.com , accessed April 25, 2018.