Henry Poole (died 1616)

Sir Henry Poole (1541 – 31 August 1616) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1593.

He was concerned about religious dissenters and in 1578 brought notice of a sect to the Privy Council and was directed to round them up.

[1] In 1588 he was Captain of a company of the Gloucestershire Trained Bands in Queen Elizabeth I's army facing the invasion threat of the Spanish Armada.

[2] In 1593, Poole was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire and was also a subsidy commissioner.

[1] Poole died at the age of 76 having made the request in his will to be buried in Sapperton church, with a sum of money provided for the erection of "a comely and convenient tomb".