Robert Pople

[4] It was subsequently discovered that Pople had bribed four people £10 each to vote for him, and he appeared in front of the Election Commission at Bridgwater.

[5] Pople admitted the charge, which was part of a wider bribery effort by John Murlis, who bribed around 140 people.

[7] Pople responded at the first alarm, bringing five or six ladders which saved many people,[8][9] and then opened his premises, using the pub to shelter the survivors, and laying out victims in the stables.

He was presented with a silver and gold bracelet by the Earl of Portsmouth the following month for his actions on the night of the fire.

[14] In 1906, when dining with the Mayor at the Exeter Guildhall, Mr Pople became unwell, and following a bout of bronchitis suffered a series of heart attacks.