Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameColonel Oliver Brian Sanderson (Donald) Poole CBE TD PC MiD** 1st Baron Poole of Aldgate, 2C1R
Birth11 Aug 1911, 6 Montagu Mansions, St Marylebone, London, England
Death28 Jan 1993, 24 Campden Hill Gate, Kensington, London, England
EducationEton. Christ Church, Oxford.
Note 1At Oxford he played polo played polo and graduated in 1932 as a BA. Served in the Life Guards for nine months and commissioned into the Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1934.
Note 2In WWll he served in Syria, Iraq, North Africa, Italy and North-West Europe, rising to become a colonel in the British Army on the staff of the 21st Army Group.
Note 3Appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Member (military) on 18 February 1943, promoted to Officer (military) on 16 September (1943) and Commander (military) on 11 October 1945.
Note 4Appointed to the American Legion of Merit as a Legionnaire on 15 March 1945 and to the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau with Swords (military) as a Commander on 16 January 1947.
Note 5Joint Hon. Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1952-1955, Chairman from 1955-1957, Deputy Chairman from 1957-1959, joint chairman with Iain Macleod in 1963 and vice-chairman from 1963-1964.
Note 5Elected Member of Parliament for Oswestry in 1945, but stood down at the 1950 general election. Raised to the peerage in 1958 as Baron Poole, of Aldgate in the City of London. Privy Councellor in the 1963 Birthday Honours.
Note 5In 1939 a director of John Poole & Son Ltd, insurance brokers, London. In 1950 In 1950, he joined S. Pearson & Sons Ltd on the invitation of his friend Weetman Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray, becoming its chief executive.
Note 5Oversaw the expansion of Pearson & Sons through the acquisition of the Financial Times, Penguin Books, Longman, Château Latour, and Royal Doulton.
Note 5From 1950 to 1965, he was a director of Lazard Brothers & Co, a London merchant bank in which Pearsons owned 80 per cent of the stock, and was its chairman from 1965 to 1973.
Note 5In 1972 he became a member of the board of Fiat, in Turin, and, in 1973, a trustee of the National Gallery.
Note 5Confined to a wheelchair after suffering a stroke in 1974, spending summers at his villa in Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany.
Flags***, Poole, Sanderson
FatherDonald Louis (Henry) Poole (1868-1921)
MotherLilian Therese Frodsham (?-?)
Other spousesBetty Margaret (Dugold) Gilkison
SpouseBarbara Ann Taylor (E A)
Birth?
Death2022
FatherE A Taylor (?-?)
No Children