Sir William Pole, 7th Baronet
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Sir William Templer Pole, 7th Baronet DCL (2 August 1782 – 1 April 1847) was an English landowner and baronet.
Pole was born on 2 August 1782. He was the son of Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet and Anne Templer (a daughter of James Templer of Stover House). His younger siblings were Mary Anne de la Pole and John George de la Pole.[1]
His paternal grandparents were Sir John Pole, 5th Baronet and, his first wife, Elizabeth Mills (daughter and co-heiress of John Mills, a banker and planter of St. Kitts, West Indies and Woodford, Essex).[2]
After attending Eton College, he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 24 April 1801, aged 18. He earned an Master of Arts on 13 June 1804 and a Doctor of Civil Law on 5 July 1810.[3]
Career
On the death of his father on 30 November 1799, he succeeded as the 7th Baronet Pole, of Shute House, Devonshire, which had been created in the Baronetage of England in 1628. He was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1803.[3]
He was the High Sheriff of Devon from 1818 to 1819.[4]
