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EDGAR GIRARD CROKER POOLE was born in Limerick, the son of Major Walter Poole, R.A.M.C., and educated at Rugby and the Queen's College, Oxford, where he was mathematical scholar. He obtained both the Junior Mathematical (1911) and the Senior Mathematical (1920) University scholarships and two first classes in the school of mathematics. He was one of C. H. Thompson's most brilliant pupils. During the War of 1914–18 he served as a lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps in France. In 1920 he was elected fellow of New College and was for a time a University lecturer in mathematics. At the time of his death he was one of the editors of the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics.
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Dr. E. G. C. Poole. Nature 146, 88 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146088b0
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