Austin Lane Poole,FBA (6 December 1889 – 22 February 1963) was a British mediaevalist.

Poole came from an academic lineage, being the son ofReginald Lane Poole (archive keeper at theUniversity of Oxford) andRachael Poole (who catalogued portraits for the same university), the nephew ofStanley Lane Poole (professor of Arabic atTrinity College Dublin), and the great-nephew ofReginald Stuart Poole (professor of archaeology atCambridge University).

Austin Poole studied atMagdalen College School andCorpus Christi College, Oxford. He later taught atSelwyn College, Cambridge andSt John's College, Oxford. He became aFellow and subsequentlyPresident of the latter and was also a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

During theFirst World War, Poole served as a lieutenant in theGloucestershire Regiment.

Austin Poole contributed the third volume of theOxford History of England,From Domesday Book to Magna Carta 1087–1216, published 1951. He also edited collections of poetry byThomas Gray. He delivered theFord Lectures in 1944.

Poole was a tutor inmodern history at St John's College, Oxford from 1913 and from 14 February 1947 to 1957 was the President of the college.^[1]

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