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POOLE, REGINALD STUART (1832-1895)

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POOLE, REGINALD See also:STUART (1832-1895) , See also:English archaeologist and orientalist, was. See also:born in See also:London on the 27th of See also:January 183 2. His See also:father was the Rev. See also:Edward Poole, a well-known bibliophile. His See also:mother, Sopha, authoress of The Englishwoman in See also:Egypt (1844), was the See also:sister of E. W. See also:Lane, the Arabic See also:scholar, with whom R. S. Poole lived in See also:Cairo from 1842 to 1849, thus imbibing an See also:early See also:taste for See also:Egyptian antiquities. In 1852 he became an assistant in the See also:British Museum, and was assigned to the See also:department of coins and medals, of ;which in 1870 he became, keeper. In that capacity he did See also:work of the highest value, alike as a writer, teacher and See also:administrator. In 1882 he was largely responsible for See also:founding the Egypt Exploration Fund, and in 1884 for starting the Society of English Medallists. He retired in 1893, and died on the 8th of See also:February 1895.

Some of Poole's best work was done in his articles for the Ency. Brit. (9th ed.) on Egypt, See also:

Hieroglyphics See also:Wales. The See also:place became, for a See also:time, famous as a See also:meeting place for neo-Druidic gatherings. See also:Pontypridd was an insignificant See also:village till the opening of the Taff Vale railway into the See also:town in 1840, and it owed its progress chiefly to the development of the See also:coal areas of the See also:Rhondda Valley, for which See also:district it serves as the See also:market town and See also:chief business centre. It also possesses See also:anchor, See also:chain, and See also:cable See also:works, chemical works, and See also:iron and See also:brass foundries. Pontypridd has, jointly with Rhondda, a stipendiary See also:magistrate since 1872.

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