William Mansfield Poole

William Mansfield Poole (6 April 1871 – 13 December 1946) was an educationalist and author of several widely held academic text books. He had a particular gift for languages and was an early head of Modern Languages at the Royal Naval College, Osborne. In his youth he was also an accomplished oarsman, and rowed for Oxford in the 1891 Boat Race.

Life Poole was born on 6 April 1871 in Clifton, then in the county of Gloucestershire. He was the son of Canon Robert Burton Poole, who was then a master at Clifton College and would later be headmaster of Bedford Modern School between 1877 and 1900.

Poole was educated at Bedford Modern School, where he was in the First IV from 1887 to 1889; the first XV from 1886 to 1888; captain of the team in 1887 and 1888.

After Oxford, Poole joined the staff of Merchant Taylors School. They had one son and two daughters. His estate was left to his son, Major Evered Mansfield Poole. French Commercial Correspondence. Published by John Murray, 1902 French & German Picture Vocabulary, by W.Mansfield Poole, M.A. London. Published by John Murray, 1904 Lectures Françaises. Géographie Et Histoire, by William Mansfield Poole and Michel Becker, Published London 1905 Commercial French, New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Limited, 1916 by William Mansfield Poole Textes et questions: Classes élémentaires, by William Mansfield Poole and E. L. Lassimonne. Published by John Murray, 1918 Conversations en classe, by William Mansfield Poole. Published by John Murray, 1926 Grammaire française élémentaire avec exercices, by William Mansfield Poole. Published by John Murray, 1937