Rachael Poole

Rachael Emily Lane Poole (née Malleson; June 13, 1860, London – April 9, 1937, Oxford) was an historian of portraiture, with a particular focus on miniatures, active in the United Kingdom. She played a key part in cataloguing local and university artwork and architecture in Oxford.

Her most important work was the three volume Catalogue of Oxford Portraits (1919–1925). She published articles on portraitists active in Tudor England, such as Marcus Gheeraerts (both the Elder and the Younger), who came to England from the Netherlands, as well as seventeenth-century sculptor Edward Pierce.

She played an active, if voluntary, role in the life of Oxford University, and beyond her research efforts, was a founding member of the Bach Choir and served on the council of the Association for Promoting the Education of Women at Oxford. became a classics tutor for the Society of Oxford Home Students.