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REGINALD STUART POOLE (1832-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 72 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STUART See also:POOLE (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 See also: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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