Ernest Pooley

Sir Ernest Henry Pooley, 1st Baronet GCVO (20 November 1876 – 13 February 1966) was a British barrister and arts administrator.

He was created a baronet, of Westbrook House in the Parish of Tillington in the County of Sussex, in January 1953.

[3] He was further honoured when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1956.

Pooley died in February 1966, aged 89, when the baronetcy became extinct.

In the First World War Pooley served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and the Royal Garrison Artillery, fighting in both France and Gallipoli.