Transcript of

Sir Edmund Reginald Talbot de la Pole [Obituary]

By

Maxwell Adams (Ed.)

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. 45, (1913). pp. 44-45

Provided by Michael Steer

The obituary was presented at the Association’s July 1913 Buckfastleigh meeting. Reference to the deceased in “The Peerage, A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain,” indicates that he was named Edmund Reginald Talbot Pole at birth. His name was subsequently legally changed to Edmund Reginald Talbot De La Pole.  He succeeded as the 10th Baronet Pole, of Shute House, [E., 1628] on 21 March 1895. A great deal of genealogical information about this ancient family, including Sir Edmund’s two marriages, may be accessed here. The obituary may be found in a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal that can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Sir Edmund de la Pole, who was lord of the manors of Shute and Colyton, joined the Association as a life member in 1898, and was one of the Vice-Presidents for the Axminster Meeting in 1907. He died at Shute House, Devon, on 26 August, 1912, in the sixty-eighth year of his age.
The family of De la Pole is an ancient one. Its earliest known seat was at Tiverton, Devon, where the ancestors of the house had been in possession from the time of the Conquest. The baronetcy was created in 1628, and Sir Edmund was the tenth holder of the title. He succeeded his father in 1895. In 1877 he married a daughter of Captain Hastings Sands, 3rd Dragoon Guards, who died in 1878, and he married secondly, in 1884, Marion, daughter of the late Mr. Charles Rhodes, of Lyndhurst, Kent, and she died on 28 May, 1912. There were no children, and the late baronet is succeeded by his brother Sir Frederick Arundell de la Pole