Edward Pole (British Army officer)
Lieutenant-General Edward Pole (c. 1682 – 22 December 1762) was an officer of the British Army.
Biography
[edit]The third son of Samuel Pole of Radbourne Hall in Derbyshire,[1] Pole joined the Army as a second lieutenant in the Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers on 23 February 1709.[2] He served with his regiment in the Netherlands during the War of the Spanish Succession, and was present at the battle of Malplaquet in 1709.[3] The war ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and Pole was promoted to captain on 13 August 1713.[1][4] 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.[1]
Pole was several years major in the 23rd Regiment of Foot.[3] On 18 August 1739 he was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 12th Regiment of Dragoons,[5] and on 22 December 1747 he was promoted to colonel,[1] succeeding to John Folliot's Regiment of Foot.[6] On 10 August 1749 King George II rewarded his long and faithful service with the colonelcy of the 10th Regiment of Foot.[3] He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1757,[7] and to that of lieutenant-general in 1759.[8]
Lieutenant-General Pole died at Park Hall, Derbyshire, on 22 December 1762, aged eighty.[9]
Family
[edit]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.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661–1714, vol. VI (1904) p. 342, n. 16.
- ^ Dalton, English Army Lists, p. 341.
- ^ a b c Richard Cannon, Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot (1847) p. 78.
- ^ Dalton, English Army Lists, p. 101.
- ^ Army List for 1740, p. 67.
- ^ "No. 8728". The London Gazette. 15–19 March 1747. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 9661". The London Gazette. 12–15 February 1757. p. 3.
- ^ "No. 9924". The London Gazette. 21–25 August 1759. p. 2.
- ^ Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 32, p. 601.
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. H. Colburn. 1847. p. 1051.
- 1682 births
- 1762 deaths
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