Secretary to the Commissioners for the 1892 Westminster Public Library. Became librarian in Great Smith Street in March 1881 and went on to be employed by Westminster City Council as a branch librarian. Retired in 1904.
We have to assume that this is not the same Henry Poole that did the lovely bas relief work on the near-by wash-house.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Henry E. Poole
Westminster Public Library The united parishes of St Margaret and St John the...
Born Camden Place, Southampton Street, Camberwell. Bibliographer and forger. An authority on the lives and works of Shelley and Keats. He also had a lifelong career in the Post Office and was award...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration
One of a trio of Greenwich museums, the others being the Royal Observatory and the Queen's House.
Group, Armed Forces, History, Museums / Libraries, Transport
"The poetical antiquary", bibliographer and engraver. He published his own verse but mainly he edited historical and literary works. Father of John James Park.
Non-conformist minister and numismatist. Born Bristol. Became Baptist minister at Little Wild Street (see Samuel Stennett) in 1730 but in 1735 he had to leave when accused by a member of the congre...
The newly built up Willesden area was provided with a library, completed in 1894. It was extended at the back in 1907, part funded by Andrew Carnegie. The whole back section was rebuilt with addit...
Born East London, 36 Broad Street Buildings.
Martin Shaw, O.B.E., 1875 - 1958, composer, quiet revolutionary of English music lived here. Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association Awards...
English Heritage Ann Oldfield, 1683 - 1730, actress, first occupant of this house, 1725 - 1730.
The plaque was stolen some years ago. In 1994 (300th birthday) the Voltaire Foundation got it put back.