Lieutenant-General Edward Pole (c. 1682 – 22 December 1762) was an officer of the

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Biography

The third son of Samuel Pole of Radbourne Hall in Derbyshire,Charles Dalton, ''English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661–1714'', vol. VI (1904
p. 342, n. 16
Pole joined the Army as a second lieutenant in the Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers on 23 February 1709. He served with his regiment in the Netherlands during the

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, and was present at the

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in 1709.

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, ''Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot'' (1847
p. 78
The war ended with the

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in 1713, and Pole was promoted to captain on 13 August 1713. He was actively employed in suppressing the rebellion in Scotland in 1715 and 1716; on 22 December 1726 he became captain in Humphrey Gore's Regiment of Dragoons, and on 9 March 1732 he was promoted to major. Pole was several years major in the 23rd Regiment of Foot. On 18 August 1739 he was promoted to the

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cy of the 12th Regiment of Dragoons, and on 22 December 1747 he was promoted to

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, succeeding to John Folliot's Regiment of Foot. On 10 August 1749 King George II rewarded his long and faithful service with the colonelcy of the

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. He was promoted to the rank of

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in 1757, and to that of lieutenant-general in 1759. Lieutenant-General Pole died at Park Hall, Derbyshire, on 22 December 1762, aged eighty.

Family

His son Edward Sacheverell Pole (1718–1780) was also an army officer, serving at the Battle of Fontenoy and reaching the rank of colonel. He was grandfather of Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole.

References

1682 births 1762 deaths British Army generals 1st The Royal Dragoons officers 12th Royal Lancers officers Royal Lincolnshire Regiment officers Royal Welch Fusiliers officers British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession People of the Jacobite rising of 1715 {{British-Army-bio-stub