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REGINALD See also: English archaeologist and orientalist, was. See also: born in See also: London on the 27th of See also: January 183 2
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His See also: father was the Rev
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See also: Edward See also: Poole, a well-known bibliophile
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His See also: mother, Sopha, authoress of The Englishwoman in See also: Egypt (1844), was the See also: sister of E
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W
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Lane, the Arabic See also: scholar, with whom R
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Poole lived in Cairo from 1842 to 1849, thus imbibing an early taste for See also: Egyptian antiquities
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In 1852 he became an assistant in the See also: British Museum, and was assigned to the department of coins and medals, of ;which in 1870 he became, keeper
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In that capacity he did See also: work of the highest value, alike as a writer, teacher and See also: administrator
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In 1882 he was largely responsible for founding the Egypt Exploration Fund, and in 1884 for starting the Society of English Medallists
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He retired in 1893, and died on the 8th of See also: February 1895
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Some of Poole's best work was done in his articles for the Ency . Brit . (9th ed.) on Egypt, HieroglyphicsSee also: Wales
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The place became, for a See also: time, famous as a meeting place for neo-Druidic gatherings
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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 market town and chief business centre
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It also possesses anchor, chain, and See also: cable See also: works, chemical works, and iron and See also: brass foundries
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Pontypridd has, jointly with Rhondda, a stipendiary magistrate since 1872
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