Henry Poole was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  variously between 1624 and 1640.

Poole was the son of Sir Henry Poole

Henry Poole (died 1616)

Sir Henry Poole was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1593.Poole was the son of Sir Giles Poole and his first wife. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1562. From 1573 he was a J.P...

 of Sapperton, Gloucestershire, former MP for Gloucestershire, and his wife Anne Wroughton, daughter of Sir William Wroughton of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford

Merton College, Oxford

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 on 10 July 1607 and was a student of the Middle Temple

Middle Temple

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 in 1609. In 1615 he purchased the manor of Cirencester from the Earl of Danby. He was Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 for Gloucestershire in 1624.

In 1624 Poole was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Cirencester

Cirencester (UK Parliament constituency)

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, and was re-elected in 1625. In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for Cirencester in the Short Parliament

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. In 1645 his son William was compounded for delinquency and in 1647 was fined £1494. The Pooles had argued that father and son were forced to comply with the Royalist party and had never acted against parliament.

Poole died before February 1652.

Poole married Hon. Beatrix Brydges daughter of William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos

William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos

William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos was an English peer and politician.He was Baron Chandos, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire and Member of Parliament for Cricklade....

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