POGSON, Wredenhall Queiros. b. 9 Dec. 1816; ensign Bengal army 1836; ensign 43 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1839, major 12 Sept. 1866; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 6 March 1868, placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; L.G. 23 Aug. 1884, general 22 Oct. 1889; served in Spain in the Anglo-Spanish legion 1836; served in the first Afghan war 1840–2, the Sutlej campaign 1846, and the Bhootan expedition 1864–6. d. St. Margaret’s place, Brighton 9 Sept. 1891.
POITEVIN, Monsieur. Went up sitting on a pony attached to a balloon; his wife posing as Europa went up on the back of a bull Aug. 1852; went up from Cremorne gardens in a balloon with 21 persons 20 Sept. 1852, the balloon came down and was blown along the ground for two miles, much hurting many of the passengers; ascended on a horse near Paris 1852; nearly drowned in the sea near Malaga while descending from his balloon 1858. d. 1858. Annual Register 1852 pp. 128, 147.
POLACK, Joel Samuel. b. London 28 March 1807; emigrated to New Zealand 1831; a ship chandler in the Bay of Islands 1832, purchased about 1,100 acres of land; returned to London May 1837; gave evidence before select committee of house of lords on New Zealand 1838; a member of the Colonial society of London 1838; lived latterly at San Francisco; author of New Zealand, a narrative of travels and adventures, 2 vols. 1838; Manners and customs of the New Zealanders, 2 vols. 1840. d. San Francisco 17 April 1882.
POLAND, Alfred (2 son of succeeding). b. London Aug. 1822; educ. at Highgate gram. sch.; at Guy’s hospital; articled pupil of Aston Key, paying £500; M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1847; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1845, assist. surgeon 1849, surgeon 1861, a most expert operator; gained Fothergill prize of Med. soc. of London 1853 and Jacksonian prize 1857; surgeon ophthalmic hospital, Moorfields, London; in practice at 42 Finsbury circus, London; F.M. and C. Soc. 1850; with G. H. Barlow edited Guy’s hospital reports sometime; contributed to T. Holmes’ System of surgery 1860 the articles Tetanus i 299–322, Animal poisons i 618–49, Injuries of the chest ii 340–87, and Urinary calculi and lithotomy iv 424–77. d. 2 Blackheath villas, Blackheath, Kent 21 Aug. 1872. Medical times and gazette ii 338–9 (1872); Proc. of royal Med. and Chir. soc. vii 135–6 (1875); Lancet 31 Aug. 1872 p. 318.
POLAND, Sir William Henry (son of Peter Raymond Poland of Highgate, Middlesex). b. 7 March 1797; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831, and as such knighted at St. James’s palace 9 March 1831. d. 2 Blackheath villas, Blackheath, Kent 17 Jany. 1884.
POLDING, John Bede. b. Liverpool 18 Nov. 1794; educ. St. Gregory’s coll. Downside, near Bath, and at Acton Burnell 1805–10; joined the Benedictine order 16 July 1810, ordained a priest 4 March 1819; tutor at St. Gregory’s college, March 1819; declined bishopric of Madras 1833; bishop of Australia and Van Diemen’s Land 2 May 1834, being consecrated bishop of Hiero-Cæserea 29 June 1834; arrived in Sydney 13 Sept. 1835, inaugurated 20 Sept.; employed on a special mission to Malta, made a count of the holy Roman empire and a bishop-assistant to the papal throne 20 July 1842; archbishop of Sydney 20 July 1842 to death; visited Europe 1841, 1846–8, 1854–6, and 1865–6; consecrated Dr. Murphy, bishop of Adelaide, the first bishop consecrated in Australia 8 Sept. 1844. d. the Sacred heart presbytery, Darlinghurst, Sydney 16 March 1877, twenty thousand people attended his funeral. Australian portrait gallery (1885) 79–84 portrait.
POLE, Arthur Cunliffe Van Notten (5 son of Charles Van Notten Pole 1772–1864, resumed name of Van Notten by R.L. 19 July 1853). b. 3 July 1806; ensign 63 foot 7 Nov. 1826, lieut. colonel 2 Sept. 1844 to 23 Dec. 1853; inspecting field officer of recruiting districts 23 Dec. 1853 to 13 Dec. 1859; colonel 63 foot 27 March 1868 to death; L.G. 9 April 1868. d. 66 Oxford terrace, Edgware road, London 21 Aug. 1873.
POLE, Edward (4 son of sir Peter Pole, 2 baronet 1770–1850). b. 26 Aug. 1805; cornet 12 lancers 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 30 March 1847, placed on h.p. 5 March 1861; colonel 5 lancers 22 Nov. 1868 to 1 Jany. 1872; colonel 12 lancers 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; commanded the cavalry and artillery in general Somerset’s expedition over the Kei 1851, and the 12 lancers in Kaffir war 1851–3; served in the Crimea from 9 May 1855. d. Poyle park, Tongham, Surrey 3 Feb. 1879.
POLE, Edward Sacheverell Chandos (1 son of Sacheverell Pole 1769–1813, who assumed by sign manual name of Chandos in 1807). b. 1 March 1792; educ. Harrow 1813–7; matric. from St. Mary’s hall, Oxf. 14 Feb. 1817; at Great Harlow military college; ensign 1 foot guards 5 May 1808 to 1813; served in Walcheren expedition, and in Spain and Portugal to 1813; succeeded to the family property 14 April 1813; commanded Radbourne troop of yeomanry cavalry 1813; sheriff of Derbyshire 1827; an associate of British archæol. assoc. 1851; always known in Derby as The Squire. d. Radborne hall, Derby 19 Jany. 1863. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx 167 (1864); G.M. March 1863 p. 387.
POLE, William (brother of A. C. Van Notten Pole). b. 6 July 1798; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1823; professor of civil engineering in Univ. coll. London July 1859 to 1867, then in Elphinston coll. Bombay; F.R.S. 9 April 1829, vice-president 1876; one of the best whist players of his day; edited and completed The life of sir W. Fairbairn, Bart. 1877; author of A treatise on the Cornish pumping engine 1844 (being Appendix G in Tredgold on the Steam engine); wrote On the strength and defects of beams 1850; On the theory of the modern scientific game of whist 1865, 15 ed. 1885; Iron as a material of construction 1872; The philosophy of music 1877, 2 ed. 1887; The philosophy of whist 1883, 6 ed. 1892; The life of sir William Siemens 1888; The evolution of whist 1895; resided at 13 Devonshire place, London 1866 to death. d. 13 Devonshire place, London 29 July 1884. W. P. Courtney’s English whist (1894) 224, 398.