Sir William Pole, 7th Baronet
Sir William Templer Pole, 7th Baronet DCL was an English landowner and baronet.
Early life
Pole was born on 2 August 1782. He was the son of Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet and Anne Templer. His younger siblings were Mary Anne de la Pole and John George de la Pole.His paternal grandparents were Sir John Pole, 5th Baronet and, his first wife, Elizabeth Mills.
After attending Eton College, he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 24 April 1801, aged 18. He earned an Master of Arts on 13 June 1804 and a Doctor of Civil Law on 5 July 1810.
Career
On the death of his father on 30 November 1799, he succeeded as the 7th Baronet Pole, of Shute House, Devonshire, which had been created in the Baronetage of England in 1628. He was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1803.He was the High Sheriff of Devon from 1818 to 1819.
Personal life
On 24 August 1804, Sir William married his first cousin, Sophia Anne Templer, a daughter of his maternal uncle, George Templer, MP for Honiton, and Jane Paul. Before her death, they were the parents of:- Sir John George Reeve de la Pole, 8th Baronet, who married Margaretta Barton, daughter of Henry Barton of Sausthorpe Hall, in 1829. After her death, he married Josephine Catherine Denise Carré in 1843.
- Jane Maria Pole, who married, as his second wife, Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley in 1833.
- Charlotte Pole, who died unmarried.
- Sir William Edmund Pole, 9th Baronet, who married Margaret Victoriosa Talbot, daughter of Adm. Sir Hon. John Talbot and Hon. Juliana Mary Arundel, in 1841.
- Reginald Frederick Pole, who died unmarried at age 29.