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Encyclopedia Britannica



POLE, WILLIAM (18141900)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 976 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
POLE, WILLIAM (18141900) , English engineer, was born at Birmingham on the 22nd of April 1814.. He was a man of many accomplishments. Having spent his earlier years in various engineering occupations in England, he went out to India in 1844 as professor of engineering at
Elphinstone
  College, Bombay, where he had to first organize the course of instruction for native students, but his health obliged him to return to England in 1848. For the next ten years he worked in London under James
Simpson
  and J. M. Rendel, and the high reputation he achieved as a scientific engineer gained his appointment in 1859 to the chair of civil engineering in University College, London. He obtained a considerable amount of official work from the government. He served on the committees which considered the application of armour to ships and fortifications (1861-1864), and the comparative advantages of Whitworth and Armstrong guns (18631865). He was secretary to the Royal Commission on Railways (18651867), the duke of Richmond's Commission on London Water (18671869), also taking part in the subsequent proceedings for establishing a constant
supply
 , the Royal Commission on the Disposal of London Sewage (18821884), and the departmental committee on the science museums at South Kensington in 1885. In 1871 he was employed by the War Office to report on the
Martini
 -Henry rifle, and in the same year was appointed consulting engineer in London to the Japanese government, a position through which he exercised considerable influence on the development of the Japanese railway system. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1861, in re-cognition of some investigations on colour-blindness. Music was also one of his
chief
  interests. At the age of twenty-two he was appointed organist of St Mark's, North Audley Street, in open competition, the next selected candidate being Dr E. J. Hopkins (1818-1901), who subsequently was for fifty years organist of the Temple Church. He took the degree of Bachelor of Music at Oxford in 186o, proceeding to his
doctor
 's degree in 1867, and in 1879 published his Philosophy of Music. He was largely concerned in the institution of musical degrees by the University of London in 1877, and for many years acted as one of the examiners. His mathematical tastes found con-genial occupation in the study of
whist
 , and as an exponent of the scientific principles of that game he was even earlier in the field than " Cavendish." His literary work included treatises on the steam-
engine
  and on iron construction, biographical studies of famous engineers, including Robert Stephenson and I. K.
Brunel
 , Sir William Fairbairn and Sir W. Siemens, several books on musical subjects and on
whist
 , and many papers for reviews and scientific
periodicals
 . He died on the 3oth of December 1900. His son, William Pole (1852 ), became known as an actor and writer under the stage-name of William Pool, more especially for his studies in Shakespearian drama and his work in connexion with the Elizabethan Stage Society.


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