Sir Reginald Ward Edward Lane Poole, KCVO (23 November 1864 – 11 August 1941) was a prominent British solicitor who became President of the Law Society and, according to The Times, "to the public at large perhaps the best known solicitor of his day".
[1] Poole was born in Paddington, London, the son of Professor Reginald Stuart Poole of London and Eliza Christina Forlonge of Tasmania.
[2] He was educated at Bedford School and at the University of London.
He was a member of the Council of the Law Society, between 1919 and 1940, President of the Law Society, between 1933 and 1934, Chairman of the Discipline Committee of the Law Society, a Member of the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure, in 1929, and a Member of the Committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor to consider the Law of Defamation, in 1939.
[3] Poole was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1928 Birthday Honours, gazetted on 1 June 1928,[4] and a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1934.