Reginald Lane Poole, FBA (1857–1939) was a British historian. He was Keeper of the Archives and a lecturer in diplomatics at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, where he gave the

Ford Lectures The Ford Lectures, technically the James Ford Lectures in British History, are an annual series of public lectures held at the University of Oxford on the subject of English or British history. They are usually devoted to a particular historical ...

in 1912 on the subject of "The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century". Son of Edward Stanley Poole, the "Lane" in his surname comes from his paternal grandmother

Sophia Lane Poole Sophia Lane Poole (1804–1891) was an English orientalist. She was the estranged wife of Edward Poole and sister of the famous orientalist Edward William Lane, who suggested that she and her sons join him in Egypt so that she could report on th ...

, author of ''An Englishwoman in Egypt'' (1844). He was the father of

Austin Lane Poole Austin Lane Poole, FBA (6 December 1889 – 22 February 1963) was a British mediaevalist. Poole came from an academic lineage, being the son of Reginald Lane Poole (archive keeper at the University of Oxford), the nephew of Stanley Lane Poole (p ...

(1889–1963), also a historian and Ford's Lecturer; the brother of the orientalist Stanley Lane-Poole; the nephew of

Reginald Stuart Poole Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 18328 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was from a famous Orientalist family as his mother Sophia Lane Poole, his uncle Edward William Lane an ...

; and the great-nephew of

Edward William Lane Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. He is known for his ''Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians'' and the '' Arabic-English Lexicon,'' as well as his transla ...

. He edited, among other works, with W. Hunt, ''Political History of England'' (twelve volumes, 1905–10). His works include: *''History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion'' (1880) *''Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought'' (1884) *''Wycliffe and Movements for Reform'' (1889) *''Historical Atlas of Modern Europe'' (1897–1902) *''Lectures on the History of the Papal Chancery'' (1915)

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* * * * 1857 births 1939 deaths British historians English archivists Keepers of the Archives of the University of Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America {{England-historian-stub