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Organic Chemistry, 8e (Wade)

Chapter 2 Structure and Properties of Organic Molecules

1) An orbital can be described by its ________, which is the mathematical description of the shape of
the electron wave as it oscillates.
Answer: wave function
Diff: 1
Section: 2.1

2) The electron density at any point is proportional to the ________ of the electron wave at that point.
Answer: square of the wave function
Diff: 2
Section: 2.1

3) Which atomic orbital combination would result in a molecular sigma bond?

A)
B)
C)
D)
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Section: 2.2

4) Two p orbitals can overlap to form a s molecular orbital. How many nodes are present in this s
molecular orbital?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Section: 2.2

5) Two p orbitals can overlap to form a s* molecular orbital. How many nodes are present in this s*
molecular orbital?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Section: 2.2

6) When orbitals on different atoms interact, ________ are produced.

Answer: molecular orbitals
Diff: 1
Section: 2.2
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7) What kind of molecular orbital (σ, σ*, π, or π*) results when the two atomic orbitals shown below
interact in the manner indicated?

Answer: σ*
Diff: 2
Section: 2.2

8) What kind of molecular orbital (σ, σ*, π, or π*) results when the two atomic orbitals shown below
interact in the manner indicated?

Answer: σ
Diff: 2
Section: 2.2

9) What kind of molecular orbital (σ, σ*, π, or π*) results when the two atomic orbitals shown below
interact in the manner indicated?

Answer: σ*
Diff: 2
Section: 2.2

10) How many carbon-carbon σ bonds are present in the molecule shown?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
E) 5
Answer: E
Diff: 2
Section: 2.2

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11) How many carbon-carbon s bonds are present in the molecule shown?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
E) 5
Answer: D
Diff: 2
Section: 2.2

12) How many carbon-carbon s bonds are present in the molecule shown?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
E) 5
Answer: C
Diff: 2
Section: 2.2

13) Consider the interaction of two hydrogen 1s atomic orbitals of the same phase. Which of the
statements below is an incorrect description of this interaction?
A) A sigma bonding molecular orbital is formed.
B) The molecular orbital formed is lower in energy than a hydrogen 1s atomic orbital.
C) The molecular orbital formed has a node between the atoms.
D) The molecular orbital formed is cylindrically symmetric.
E) A maximum of two electrons may occupy the molecular orbital formed.
Answer: C
Diff: 3
Section: 2.2

14) A ________ bond results when parallel p orbitals overlap sideways.

Answer: π
Diff: 1
Section: 2.3

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ensign 1 foot guards 5 May 1808 to 1813; served in Walcheren
expedition, and in Spain and Portugal to 1813; succeeded to the
family property 14 April 1813; commanded Radbourne troop of
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boat; rowed in the match with Cambridge 1846; B.A. 1846, M.A.
1849; C. of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, Easter 1849 to 30 Dec. 1855;
R. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1849, resigned 1849; an East Indian
 chaplain 1 Sept. 1855; appointed chaplain to the Lucknow garrison
26 March 1856 to death; wounded during the siege 8 July 1857. d.
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from Poland 1864; a newspaper correspondent in America; assisted
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1855; capt. of duke of Manchester’s first mounted volunteers 1860;
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arrange the signal England expects every man will do his duty; shot
the Frenchman who killed lord Nelson; congratulated by sir Thomas
Hardy after the battle; lieut. 14 Nov. 1806; chief officer in coast
guard, Stranraer district 2 Aug. 1836 to 12 Jany. 1853; lieut. at
Greenwich hospital 12 Jany. 1853 to death. d. Greenwich hospital
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sheriff of Westmeath 1840; took additional name of Urquhart by
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Westminster school 26 Jany. 1835; solicitor at 31 New Broad st.
1853–5; partner with Wm. Parke at 63 Lincoln’s inn fields 1855–
64; practised alone 1864–72; partner with Arthur Pollock 1872 to
death; composer of the songs O let the solid ground 1861;
Remembrance 1861; O swallow, swallow, flying south 1880, the
words by A. Tennyson; resided Heathfield, Hilford road,
Hampstead. drowned while bathing at Totland bay, Freshwater, Isle
of Wight 10 Aug. 1873, personalty sworn under £400,000, 10 Sept.
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POLLOCK, S G , 1 Baronet (youngest son of David Pollock of
Charing Cross, London, saddler to George III). b. London 4 June
1786; educ. R.M.A. Woolwich 1801–3; lieut. Bengal artillery 14
Dec. 1803, brigade major 1815–20; assistant adjutant general of
artillery 1820–4; colonel commandant 3 March 1835 to death;
commanded Bengal artillery in Burmese war 1824; commander of
the armies west of the Indus Jany. 1842. forced the Kyber pass 5
April 1842, relieved sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad 16 April, defeated
the Afghans at Mamookail Aug., at Jugdulluk 8 Sept., and again on
13 Sept., entered Cabul 16 Sept., released the prisoners 21 Sept.,
brought his army back in safety to India; commanded the Danapur
division 1842; the thanks of both houses of parliament were voted
 to him 1843; acting resident at Lucknow Dec. 1843 to 1844;
military member of supreme council of India 20 Sept. 1844 to 1845;
granted a pension of £1,000 by the H.E.I. Co. 1846; voted freedom
of city of London 6 April 1846, admitted 17 Dec. 1847; L.G. 11
Nov. 1851; colonel of 1st Surrey rifles (Camberwell) 6 July 1861 to
death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; K.S.I. 19 Aug.
1861, G.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; a director of the East India company
12 April 1854 to April 1856; general 17 May 1859, field marshal 24
May 1870; constable of the Tower of London and lieutenant and
custos rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets 14 Nov. 1871 to death;
created baronet 26 March 1872. d. Walmer 6 Oct. 1872. bur.
Westminster abbey 16 Oct., portrait by sir Francis Grant in the India
office, and marble bust by Joseph Durham in National portrait
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(1842) portrait, lix 441, 442 (1871) portrait; Higginbotham’s Men
whom India has known (1874) 349–52.
POLLOCK, J S (son of Samuel Pollock, captain 43 foot). b.
Strathallan, Isle of Man 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1858,
M.A. 1861; C. of Bowdon, Cheshire 1861; C. of St. Paul’s,
Birmingham 1861–4; C. of St. John the Evangelist, Hammersmith
1864–5; C. of St. Alban’s, Birmingham 1865–71, and P.C. of St.
Alban’s 1871 to death; author of One hundred reasons against
auricular confession 1867; Resting-places, a manual of christian
doctrine 1870, 3 ed. 1877; Out of the body, a scriptural inquiry
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the theatre royal, Marischal st. Aberdeen from 1817 to her death; m.
(1) about 1830 Corbet Ryder, theatrical manager, Aberdeen, d.
1843; m. (2) about 1847 Mr. Pollock, actor, d. 1853; actress, lessee,
and manager of the theatre, Aberdeen to 1862, on her final
retirement from the stage presented with her portrait, as Lady
Macbeth, painted by Innes 1874, the portrait is now in Her
majesty’s opera house, Aberdeen; she was good in Helen
Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Emelia, Julia, Pauline, Lady Teazle, and
Mrs. Simpson. d. Dalkeith 1 July 1875. bur. St. Peter’s cemetery,
 Aberdeen 5 July. J. K. Angus’ A Scotch play-house (1878) 26–8;
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POLLOCK, S J F , 1 Baronet (brother of sir George
Pollock 1786–1872). b. Piccadilly, London 23 Sept. 1783; educ. St.
Paul’s school 1800, Perry exhibitioner to Trin. coll. Camb. Oct.
1803, scholar 1804, fellow 1807, senior wrangler and first Smith’s
prizeman 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; barrister M.T. 27 Nov.
1807, went northern circuit, became leader; K.C. 13 June 1827;
bencher of I.T. 1827–44, reader 1836–7, treasurer 1837;
commissary of univ. of Camb. 1824–35; F.R.S. 1816, F.G.S. 1818;
attorney general for county palatine of Lancaster 1834–5; M.P.
Huntingdon 2 May 1831 to April 1844; a comr. for inquiry into
practice of courts of law 1831; attorney general 17 Dec. 1834 to 9
April 1835, and 6 Sept. 1841 to 15 April 1844; knighted at the
Pavilion, Brighton 29 Dec. 1834; sergeant-at-law 15 April 1844;
lord chief baron of court of court of exchequer 15 April 1844,
retired 12 July 1866; P.C. 17 April 1844; created baronet 24 July
1866. d. at his seat Hatton, Middlesex 23 Aug. 1870. bur. Hanwell
cemet. 29 Aug. Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second
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81; Law mag. and law review xxx 200–16 (1871); Portraits of
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POLLOCK, J (eld. son of Edward Pollock of co. Down, Ireland,
barrister). b. co. Down, Ireland 1818; educ. Armagh college and
Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1834; barrister G.I. 11 June
1842, went northern circuit; practised in Manchester; judge of
Salford court of record to Nov. 1851; judge of county court of
Liverpool Nov. 1851, retired on pension of £1,000, Oct. 1857. d. 2
Dorset st. Manchester sq. London 26 May 1858. Law Times 5 June
1858 p. 146.
POLLOCK, W (brother of the preceding). b. 22 Sept. 1812; educ.
Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1841, B.D. and
D.D. 1868; V. of St. Thomas, Stockport to 1840; C. of Ch. Ch.
Macclesfield 1841; V. of St. Helens, Lancs. 1841–6; P.C. of St.
Mark’s, Liverpool 1846–56; V. of Bowden, near Altrincham 1856 to
death; archdeacon of Chester and hon. canon of Chester cathedral
1867, resigned 1870; author of Foundations, being a series of essays
 on fundamental truths 1856; Fourteen reasons for responding and
singing in church 1866; The temptation of our blessed Lord, and
other poems 1873. d. Devonshire place, Claughton, Birkenhead 11
Oct. 1873. I.L.N. lxiii 399 (1873).
POLLOCK, S W F , 2 Baronet (son of sir Jonathan
Frederick Pollock, 1 baronet 1783–1870). b. 23 Bernard st. Russell
sq. London 3 April 1815; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1825–33, and Trin.
coll. Camb., scholar 1835; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister I.T. 26
Jany. 1838; revising barrister northern circuit 1840; master in court
of exchequer Aug. 1846; queen’s remembrancer 18 Dec. 1874;
resigned Sept. 1886; president of Equitable assurance society;
member of Royal toxophilite soc. 15 July 1858, which he assisted
financially and gave to it prizes for competition; succeeded as 2
baronet 23 Aug. 1870; author of The divine comedy, or the inferno,
purgatory and paradise of Dante rendered into English 1854;
Personal remembrances 1887; edited Reminiscences of W. C.
Macready, 2 vols. 1876; m. 1844 Juliet, dau. of rev. Henry Creed,
vicar of Corse, Gloucs., she was a well known toxophilite. d. 59
Montagu sq. London 24 Dec. 1888. Follett’s Archer’s register
(1889) 67–9; Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second
baronet, 2 vols. (1887).
POLLOK, A (son of Thomas Pollok). b. Faside 1781; with his
brother John entered grocery business of Allan Pollok, Glasgow;
they joined Allan Gilmour as wood merchants 1804, the firm being
Pollok, Gilmour and Co. Glasgow; he managed the branch at
Grangemouth, then the branch houses at St. John and Miramichi
1808; started ship building yards at Quebec and acquired forests and
saw mills; the largest ship owners in the United Kingdom; retired
from business 1853; John Pollock b. Faside 1778, d. 1858; he d.
Broom, Faside 1870. J. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 263–4 (1886)
portrait.
POLLOK, R . b. Neilston parish, Renfrewshire; educ. in Ayrshire;
entered univ. of Glasgow 1817; licensed by united secession
presbytery of Glasgow 1825; minister of Buckhaven, Fifeshire
1826; minister of Kingston, Glasgow 1826 to death; author of
Apocalyptic regeneration, lectures, 2 vols. 1856–8. d. 1879. Our
Scottish clergy, 2 series 266–71 (1849).
POLTIMORE, G W B , 1 Baron Poltimore (only
child of sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5 baronet 1753–1823). b.
23 March 1786; succeeded as 6 baronet 19 April 1823; created
baron Poltimore of Poltimore, Devon 10 Sept. 1831; lord in waiting
to queen Victoria 15 Aug. 1840, resigned Sept. 1841; colonel of
North Devon militia. d. Poltimore 18 Dec. 1858.
POLWARTH, H F H -S , 7 Baron (eld. son of 5
baron Polwarth 1758–1841, who assumed additional surname of
Hepburne). b. Brighton 1 Jany. 1800; M.P. Roxburghshire 1826–32;
succeeded 28 Dec. 1841; a representative peer for Scotland June or
July 1843 to death; lord lieutenant of Selkirkshire 8 Dec. 1845 to
death; a lord in waiting to the queen Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. to June
1859, and July 1866 to his death; lieut. col. 1 batt. Roxburgh rifle
volunteers 9 Nov. 1861 to death. d. Merton house, co. Berwick 16
Aug. 1867. G.M. iv 533 (1867).
POLWHELE, T (5 son of rev. Richard Polwhele, author 1760–
1838). b. Manaccan vicarage 4 Oct. 1797; entered Bengal army
1814; ensign 21 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1815, lieut. 1 Feb. 1818;
captain 42 N.I. 26 July 1830, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1850 to 1851; lieut.
col. of 54 N.I. 1851–6, of 36 N.I. 1856–7, and of 17 N.I. 1857 to 4
May 1858; commandant Agra 7 March 1856 to 1857; general 13
Dec. 1876; served in Nepaul 1816, in Ceylon 1818, in Burmah
1824, in Candahar and Afghanistan 1839–42, in the Sutlej
campaign 1845; succeeded his brother R. G. Polwhele at Polwhele,
near Truro 31 Oct. 1870. d. Tivoli lodge, Cheltenham 23 May 1885.
J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan (1843) 141 et seq.; G.
C. Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 746.
POND, C A M (eld. son of B. C. Pond of 102
Brixton Hill, Surrey). b. 1864; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow
1890 or 1891 to death, B.A. 1887, M.A. 1890; Prendergast Greek
student at Camb. 1890–2; professor of classics at Auckland, New
Zealand 1890 or 1891 to death. d. Auckland 28 Oct. 1893.
POND, C . b. England 1826; with Felix Spiers proprietors of
the cafe royal Bourke st. Melbourne, Australia; connected with
bringing the first English team of cricketers to Australia 23 Dec.
1861; with F. Spiers built Criterion restaurant and theatre 218–223
Piccadilly, London 1873, at cost of £80,000, the theatre was opened
21 March 1874; wine and spirit merchants and proprietors of hotels
 and refreshment rooms on London, Chatham and Dover, and
Metropolitan railways, also proprietors of the Gaiety restaurant 343
Strand, and of the Holborn viaduct hotel; resided The Cedars, Herne
hill, Surrey. d. Updown house, Margate 30 July 1881. bur. Norwood
5 Aug., will proved by his widow Emma 23 Nov., personalty
£215,000, bronze statue of him by J. E. Boehm placed on grand
staircase of the Criterion Oct. 1886. Morning Advertiser 1 Aug.
1881 p. 4, 6 Aug. p. 2.
POND, R R . b. 1824; advertising agent at 17 Upper
Wellington st. Strand 1850, at 165 Strand 1853–5, and at 1 Exeter
Change, Strand 1855–9; lessee of St. James’s and Drury Lane
theatres several times in conjunction with Joseph Stammers;
connected with Peter Morrison of the Bank of deposit; lineally
descended from the earl of Derwentwater; engaged in literary
enterprises with the Broughs, the Mayhews, and Strauss. d. 1 Albert
villas, Albert road, Peckham 10 Feb. 1868. G. L. M. Strauss,
Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii 113–24 (1882).
PONIATOWSKI, Prince Josef Michel Xaver Johann (son of Stanislas
Poniatowski 1754–1833). b. Rome 20 Feb. 1816; a musician, tenor
singer, and composer of operas; naturalised in Tuscany 1848;
minister plenipotentiary from Tuscany to Paris 1848–70; naturalised
in France 1854–69; lived in London 1870 to death; his opera
Gelmina produced at Covent Garden 4 June 1872; among his
compositions in England were Claude Duval, a song 1871; The
flower girl, a ballad 1872; Gelmina, dramma lirico in tre atti 1872;
The stag hunt, song 1873; The lover’s pen, song 1875; Mass in F
for four voices and chorus 1876. d. at his residence, London 3 July
1873. bur. Chislehurst 8 July. Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire xii
1391 (1874).
PONSFORD, J . b. Modbury, Devon 1790; studied in Rome; painted
portraits in oil at Plymouth, the best portrait painter of his day in
Devon; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 5 at Suffolk st.
1823–57. d. London 1870. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883)
106.
PONSONBY, J P , 1 Viscount (eld. son of 1 baron Ponsonby
1744–1806). b. 1770; M.P. Tallagh 1793–1807; M.P. Dungarvan
1798–1800; M.P. Galway 1801–2; succeeded his father as 2 baron
Ponsonby 5 Nov. 1806; the handsomest man of his time; envoy
 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres 28 Feb.
1826, and at Rio Janeiro 12 Feb. 1828; sent on a special mission to
Belgium 1 Dec. 1830; envoy extraordinary at Naples 8 June to 9
Nov. 1832; ambassador at Constantinople 27 Nov. 1832 to 1 March
1837, and at Vienna 10 Aug. 1846 to 31 May 1850; G.C.B. 3 March
1834; created viscount Ponsonby of Imokilly, co. Cork 20 April
1839; author of Private letters on the Eastern question, written at the
date thereon, Brighton 1854. d. Brighton 21 Feb. 1855. Lamington’s
Days of the dandies (1890) 75–9; Sir H. Lytton Bulwer’s Historical
characters ii 369–70 (1868); Abbé van Geel’s The Guet-ā-pens
diplomacy of lord Ponsonby at Brussels 1831.
PONSONBY, E C M (3 dau. of 4 earl of Bessborough
1781–1847). b. Margaret st. London 17 Feb. 1817; author of the
following novels, most of them originally published anonymously,
The discipline of life, 3 vols. 1848. 2 ed. 1848; Pride and
irresolution, 3 vols. 1850, a new series of the former book; Clare
abbey, or the trials of youth, 2 vols. 1851; Mary Gray and other
tales and verses 1852; Edward Willoughby, a tale, 2 vols. 1854; The
young lord, 2 vols. 1856; Sunday readings 1857; The two brothers,
3 vols. 1858; A mother’s trial 1859; Katherine and her sisters 1861,
2 ed. 1863; Mary Lyndsay, 3 vols. 1863; Violet Osborne, 3 vols.
1865; Sir Owen Fairfax, 3 vols. 1866; A story of two cousins 1868;
Nora, 3 vols. 1870; Oliver Beaumont and lord Latimer, 3 vols.
1873. d. 3 Feb. 1877. D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland, part iii,
p. 206 (1892).
PONSONBY, F J (3 son of sir Frederick Cavendish
Ponsonby 1783–1837). b. 21 March 1837; educ. Harrow 1850–5,
and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1861, M.A. 1862; champion tennis
player at Oxford; C. of St. Giles, Reading 1862–7; chaplain of
Hampton court palace 1867–8; R. of Brington, Northants 1868–77;
V. of St. Mary Magdalen, Munster sq. London 1877 to death; rural
dean of St. Pancras 1877; a member of the English church union;
took a great interest in devotional retreats. d. 3 Cambridge place,
Regent’s park, London 3 Feb. 1894. Church portrait journal v 41
(1884) portrait; I.L.N. 10 Feb. 1894 p. 163 portrait; Daily Graphic
8 Feb. 1894 p. 4 portrait.
PONSONBY, S H F (eld. son of sir Frederic Cavendish
Ponsonby, major general 1783–1837). b. Corfu 10 Dec. 1825;
ensign 49 foot 27 Dec. 1842; lieut. grenadier guards 16 Feb. 1844,
 major 27 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 April 1870; A.D.C. to lords
Clarendon and St. Germans, lord lieutenants of Ireland 1847–58;
served in Crimean war 1855–6; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired
list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1880; equerry to prince Albert
1856–61; private secretary and extra equerry to the queen 8 April
1870 to May 1895, and keeper of the privy purse 8 Oct. 1878 to
May 1895; C.B. 26 Aug. 1872, K.C.B. 12 March 1879, G.C.B. 21
June 1887; P.C. 20 April 1880; a hard worker and a faithful servant
in the service of the queen. d. East Cowes, Isle of Wight 21 Nov.
1895. bur. Whippingham. St. James’s Budget 29 Nov. 1895 p. 5
portrait; Strand mag. Dec. 1892 p. 588, 5 portraits; Times 22 Nov.
1895 p. 7; Graphic 30 Nov. 1895 p. 672 portrait; I.L.N. 30 Nov.
1895 p. 671 portrait.
PONSONBY, R (3 son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806). b.
Dublin 1772; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin 3 July 1817, installed 8
July; bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora 1828; translated to Derry
patent dated 21 Sept. 1831, enthroned 2 Oct., the bishopric of
Raphoe was united to Derry in pursuance of the Church
temporalities act Sept. 1834; president of Church education society;
author of A sermon 1834. d. the Palace, Derry 27 Oct. 1853. G.M.
xl 630 (1853).
PONTON, M (only son of John Ponton, farmer). b. Balgreen, near
Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1802; admitted writer to the signet 8 Dec. 1825;
a founder of National bank of Scotland 21 March 1825, secretary
1825–46; communicated to the Society of arts for Scotland 29 May
1839 a simple method of preparing paper for photographic drawing
in which the use of any salt of silver is dispensed with, in this paper
he announced the discovery that the action of sunlight renders
bichromate of potassium insoluble, a discovery which forms the
basis of nearly all the photo-mechanical processes now in use;
F.R.S. Edinb. 1834; author of The sanctuary, its lessons and worship
1849; The material universe, its vastness and durability 1863;
Earthquakes and volcanoes 1868, 2 ed. 1888; The beginning, its
when and its how 1871; Glimpses of the future life 1873; Songs of
the soul 1877; The freedom of the truth 1878. d. Clifton 3 Aug.
1880. H. B. Pritchard’s Year book of photography for 1882,
portrait; Photographic News 20 Aug. 1880 pp. 402–3.
PONTON, T (son of Thomas Ponton of Battersea, Surrey). b.
1781; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., created M.A. 28 March
 1800; barrister L.I. 26 April 1804; a governor of Christ’s hospital;
one of the founders of the Roxburghe club 1812, and edited for it La
Morte d’ Arthur 1819. d. 4 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 13 April
1853. G.M. xli 92 (1854).
POOK, E W (son of Ebenezer Whitcher Pook of 2 London
st. Greenwich, bookseller and stationer). b. 1850; a singer; tried at
central criminal court 13 July 1871 for murder of Jane Maria
Clousen, a servant to his father, who was found nearly dead in
Kidbrook lane, near Eltham, Kent 26 April and d. in Guy’s hospital
30 April 1871, aged 17; he d. Salisbury st. London 23 April 1882.
A.R. (1871) 229–34; Central criminal court session paper, minutes
of evidence lxxiv 245–309 (1871); The Eltham tragedy reviewed by
C. [i.e. Newton Crosland] 1871, 4 ed. 1871; A report of the
speeches at the Blackheath meeting on the Pook v. Farrah libel case
1871.
POOLE, A . A singer at concerts in Bristol; appeared at theatre
royal, Bristol as Jessy in the Crimson scarf Sept. 1876; played
Patience in Sullivan’s Henry VIII at Manchester and Liverpool; was
seen as Cinderella at Glasgow; played Madame Vere de Vere in
Tantalus at Folly theatre 14 Oct. 1878; played Jelly in W. S.
Gilbert’s Princess Toto at Opera Comique 15 Oct. 1881; was seen in
many provincial pantomimes at Bristol, etc.; m. Russell Craufurd,
actor. d. St. Saviour’s hospital, Osnaburgh st. Regent’s park,
London 15 Jany. 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. Illust. sp. and dr. news
xii 121, 151 (1879) portrait.
POOLE, A W (son of Thomas Francis Poole). b.
Shrewsbury 6 Aug. 1852; educ. Shrewsbury school and Worcester
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, D.D. 1883; C. of St. Aldate’s,
Oxford 1876; master of the high school at Masulipatam, Madras
1878–81; a missionary at Telugu in South India 1881–3; missionary
bishop of Japan May 1883 to 1885, consecrated in the chapel,
Lambeth palace 18 Oct. 1883; spent winter of 1884–5 in California.
d. at his father’s residence, Fairfield, Shrewsbury 14 July 1885.
Times 20 July 1885 p. 6.
POOLE, E S (elder son of rev. Edward Richard Poole,
barrister and book collector, and of Sophia Poole 1804–91). b.
1830; chief clerk of the science and art department, London 1857 to
death; an Arabic scholar; wrote many articles for W. Smith’s
 Dictionary of the bible, 4 vols. 1868; contributed to 8th ed. of
Encyclopædia Britannica; edited Edward Wm. Lane’s Thousand
and one nights, new ed. 3 vols. 1859, another ed. 1883, and his
Account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians
1860, 2 ed. 1871. d. St. Nicholas road, Upper Tooting, Surrey 12
March 1867.
POOLE, E . b. 1846; known on the music hall stage as Nellie
Desmond; m. John Joshua Poole, and helped in the management of
the South London music hall, London road, Surrey from 1872,
carried it on alone from 1882; Harry Ulph, junior was a partner with
her for a short time in 1882; aided by her eldest son Jules Joshua
Poole later on (he d. Cape Town 21 Dec. 1895 aged 22), sold the
hall to a company 1893, remaining the manager; she became
bankrupt 12 June 1895; her daughters Violet and Evelyn are on the
music hall stage. d. London 1 Nov. 1895. bur. Abney park cemetery.
POOLE, G A . b. 1809; scholar of Emmanuel coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1831, M.A. 1838; C. of Twickenham 1831–4; C. of St. John
the Evangelist, Edinburgh 1834–7; C. of St. Chad, Shrewsbury
1837–9; P.C. of St. James’s, Leeds 1839–43; V. of Welford,
Northamptonshire 1843–76; R. of Winwick near Rugby June 1876
to death; rural dean of Haddon 1876; promoted the revival of
Gothic architecture; contributed 35 papers to Architectural soc. of
archdeaconry of Northampton 1846–77; author of The exile’s
return, or a cat’s journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh, Edinburgh
1837; The testimony of St. Cyprian against Rome 1838; The life
and times of St. Cyprian, Oxford 1840; The appropriate character of
church architecture, Leeds 1842, reissued as Churches, their
structure, arrangement, and decoration 1845; A history of England
from the invasion by the Romans to the accession of queen Victoria,
2 vols. 1844–5, 2 ed. 1855; A history of ecclesiastical architecture
in England 1848; Peterborough 1881 in Diocesan histories; his
name is attached to upwards of 30 works 1834–83. d. Winwick
rectory 25 Sept. 1883. Northamptonshire Notes and queries i 15–
17, 73 (1886); Academy xxiv 229 (1883).
POOLE, H . b. 1785; a Sunday school teacher under rev. J. J.
Biddulph at Bristol; C. of Ossett, near Wakefield 1811; in part
charge of Corsham, Wilts. 1814; P.C. of chapelries of Coleford and
Bream in Newland parish Aug. 1818; rebuilt Coleford chapel and
Bream chapel and erected a church at Park End; P.C. of St. Paul’s,
 Dean, Gloucs. 1822 to death; devoted himself to the welfare of the
inhabitants of the Forest of Dean. d. Park End, near Lydney, Gloucs.
22 Dec. 1857. H. G. Nicholl’s Personalities of the forest of Dean
(1863) 152–60.
POOLE, H G (son of James Poole of 171 Regent st. London,
tailor, d. 1847). b. Everett st. Russell sq. London 8 Nov. 1814;
entered his father’s business about 1830; tailor 32 Savile row,
London 1847 to death; firm became H. Poole and co. 36–39 Savile
row; tailor by appointment to most of the crowned heads of Europe;
regularly made clothes for Napoleon iii; the best known tailoring
establishment in the world; employed 7 coat cutters, 4 trousers and
vest cutters, 2 trimmers, and 2 cutters of liveries; began making
clothes for the Prince of Wales 1860, received a warrant of
appointment from him 20 March 1863; resided at Dorset cottage,
Fulham about 1860–70, and at Marine parade, Brighton about 1870
to death. d. 118 Marine parade, Brighton 4 May 1876. bur. Highgate
cemetery 10 May, personalty sworn under £120,000, 15 June 1876,
left a widow and a sister. His business went to his cousin Samuel
Cundey, his niece Fanny Cutler and his executor Charles Bentley
Bingley. The Tailor 11 May 1876 p. 304, 6 July p. 376.
POOLE, J . Ensign 22 foot 24 March 1814, major 18 Oct. 1839 to 30
Nov. 1846, when placed on retired full pay; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. 6
West Mall. Clifton 1 July 1871.
POOLE, J . b. 1786; his best known dramas were, produced at Drury
Lane, Hamlet travestie 17 June 1813; Who’s who, or the double
imposture 15 Nov. 1815; Deaf as a post 15 Feb. 1823; My wife,
what wife 2 April 1829; produced at Covent Garden A short reign
and a merry one 19 Nov. 1819; The two pages of Frederick the
Great 1 Dec. 1821; The Scapegoat 25 Nov. 1825; The wife’s
stratagem 13 March 1827; produced at the Haymarket Match
making 25 Aug. 1821; Married and single 16 July 1824; Paul Pry
13 Sept. 1825; Twixt the cup and the lip 12 June 1826; Lodgings for
single gentlemen 15 June 1829; resided in Paris many years; a
brother of the Charterhouse, but resigned his appointment; granted
civil list pension of £100, 6 Feb. 1851; author of Crotchets in the
air, or a balloon trip 1838; Christmas festivities 1845–8, four
specimens; Comic miscellany 1845; Little Pedlington, 2 vols. 1839;
Phineas Quiddy, or sheer industry, 3 vols. 1843. d. Highgate road,
Kentish Town, London 5 Feb. 1872. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 Feb. J.
 Poole’s Sketches and recollections, 2 vols. (1835) portrait; J.
Poole’s Christmas festivities (1845) portrait; S. C. Hall’s Book of
memories, 2 ed. (1877) 160–2; Era 18 Feb. 1872 p. 9; New Monthly
Mag. xxxi 271–81 (1831) portrait.
POOLE, J J (son of a hatter). b. King st. Southwark, London
1826; member of orchestra of theatre royal, Birmingham; musical
director and manager of Holden’s music hall, Birmingham; manager
of Metropolitan music hall, Edgware road, London; with Henry
Speedy proprietor of South London music hall 1872–9, sole
proprietor 1879 to death; he much encouraged his pianist Walter
Slaughter, who wrote his first ballet at the South London. d.
Connaught house, St. Michael’s road, Stockwell, Surrey 6 Oct.
1882. bur. Abney park cemet. 11 Oct. The Era 7 Oct. 1882 p. 5, 14
Oct. p. 5.
POOLE, J . b. Portsmouth 1802; educ. in France; local Wesleyan
preacher at Honiton; a bookseller at Poole, Dorset; second hand
bookseller in London road, London about 1852; at 15, 16 and 39
Holywell st. Strand 1854 to death. d. Holywell st. 18 Dec. 1883.
POOLE, M . Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 5 Madras N.I. 20
June 1822, captain 27 May 1834, major 29 Sept. 1842, lieut. col. 22
March 1849 to death. d. Itchapore 10 July 1855.
POOLE, P F (4 son of James Paul Poole, grocer). b. 43
College st. Bristol 28 Dec. 1807; baptised by names of Paul
Fawkner 22 July 1810; historical painter; exhibited 65 pictures at
R.A., 13 at B.I., and 13 at Suffolk st. 1830–79; awarded the
Heywood gold medal of the royal Manchester institution 1845 for
his picture Solomon Eagle exhorting the people to repentance
during the plague, exhibited at the R.A. 1843; sent a cartoon The
death of King Lear to Westminster Hall competition 1843, and
gained a prize of £300 in same competition 1847 for Edward’s
generosity to the people of Calais during the siege; A.R.A. 1846,
R.A. 1861; member of Institute of painters in water colours 1878;
26 of his works were exhibited at winter exhibition of the R.A.
1884, with a portrait sketch by Frank Holl, R.A. d. Uplands, Green
Hill, Hampstead 22 Sept. 1779. bur. Highgate cemet. Sandby’s
History of royal academy ii 311–13 (1862); Art Journal (1879) 263,
278; I.L.N. xxxviii 175, 176 (1861) portrait; Graphic xx 376 (1879)
portrait.
POOLE, R S (younger brother of Edward Stanley Poole
1830–67). b. London 27 Feb. 1832; lived with his mother at Cairo
1842–9; ascended the Nile twice to study the monuments;
contributed a series of articles to the Literary gazette 1849,
republished in 1851 under title of Horæ Ægyptiacæ or the
chronology of ancient Egypt; an assistant in the department of
antiquities in the British Museum 26 Feb. 1852, assistant keeper in
department of coins and medals July 1866, keeper 29 Oct. 1870,
retired 1893; edited and collated 35 volumes of catalogues, chiefly
of coins and medals, four of which and part of a fifth he wrote
himself; sent by trustees of British Museum to report on antiquities
at Cyprus and Alexandria 1869; lectured on Greek, Egyptian and
medallic art to students of the Royal academy 1883–5; Yates
professor of Archæology at univ. coll. London 1889, resigned 1894;
founded with Amelia Betham Edwards the Egypt exploration fund
1882, honorary secretary to his death; hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1880;
founded with Alphonso Legros the Society of English medallists
1884; author of The cities of Egypt 1882; and with Sophia Poole,
Cairo, Sinai, sixty views 1860; Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem, twenty
views 1860. d. 2 Gladstone’s road. West Kensington, London 8 Feb.
1895. S. Lane-Poole’s Life of E. W. Lane (1877) 111–121; Times 9
Feb. 1895 p. 5.
POOLE, S (youngest child of Theophilus Lane, prebendary of
Hereford, d. 1814). b. Hereford 16 Jany. 1804; m. 1829 rev. Edward
Richard Poole, book collector and bibliographer; lived with her
brother Edward Wm. Lane at Cairo 1842–9; author of The
Englishwoman in Egypt, published in Knight’s weekly volumes, 2
vols. 1844, and a second series forming vol. iii 1846; wrote with her
younger son R. S. Poole the descriptive letterpress of Frith’s
Photographic views of Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem 1860–1. d. at her
son’s house, British Museum, London 6 May 1891. Academy xxxix
466 (1891).
POOLE, W H . b. 1856; a sailor 1873; appeared at the
Standard theatre, London under John Douglass about 1874; at the
Surrey as Johnny Lamb in New Babylon; acted in a series of
Shakesperian dramas at Drury Lane; at the Adelphi and at the
Princess’; played Gilbert Vaughan in Called Back at Prince’s 1884;
went on tour with his own dramas and his own company; his
dramas were The miracle, Surrey theatre 24 March 1883; My
 queen, Gaiety 20 March 1884; Adam Bede, Royal Holborn 2 June
1884; Wronged, Olympic 29 July 1885; Holding the mirror, Tyne
theatre, Newcastle 26 Oct. 1885; Boys together, Prince of Wales’,
Liverpool 28 March 1887; The game of life, Royal Court, Liverpool
15 Aug. 1887; A people’s hero, Vaudeville 12 June 1890; The
wheel of fortune, Sadler’s Wells 12 Jany. 1891; Gertie, Royal Park
theatre 26 March 1891; he also wrote the following novels On
golden wings; New Babylon; The hidden million; A gilded shame,
by Owl, 2 vols. 1881; Her wedding morn; m. Alice Raynor. d. 27
Jany. 1894. bur. Abney park cemetery 1 Feb.
POOLEY, A . b. 1839 or 1840; organist of Liverpool cathedral
about 1863–74; organist of St. Matthew’s, Sydney, Australia to
death. d. Sydney 7 March 1896.
POOLEY, H . b. West Derby, near Liverpool 4 Jany. 1803; partner
with his father Henry Pooley (who d. 1841) as H. Pooley and son at
Albion foundry, Liverpool, 89 Fleet st. London, Wellington st.
Gateshead, and Commercial st. Newport, Monmouth 1830, makers
of scales, weighbridges, and weighing tables, took out numerous
patents; their platform weighing machines are seen in railway
stations throughout the world; retired 1872; gave a school to village
of Seacombe 1876; A.I.C.E. 21 Jany. 1851. d. Home Cross, Liscard,
Cheshire 1 Sept. 1878. G. L. M. Strauss’s England’s workshops
(1864) 26–9; Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lv 331–33 (1879);
Pooley’s Patent weighing apparatus (1859).
POOLEY, J H (only son of Henry Pooley of Kelvedon, Essex).
b. 17 Oct. 1803; educ. Dedham and St. John’s coll. Camb., 2 senior
optime, 3 in first class of classical tripos and B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828,
B.D. 1837; Norrisian prizeman 1828; fellow of his college 1826–
35; C. of St. James’, Piccadilly, London 1832–3; R, of Scotter, near
Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1833 to death; rural dean of Corringham
1839; hon. canon of Lincoln 1845 to death; author of The nature
and use of parables 1828, Norrisian medal essay: The case of the
rev. W. T. Humphreys, missionary at Myaveram 1843. d. Scotter
rectory 29 April 1895.
POPE, H M R (eld. son of Peter M. Pope,
physician, West Malling, Kent). b. 21 May 1849; educ. Merchant
Taylor’s school 1859–67; scholar of St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1867–72;
B.A. 1871, M.A. 1874; Craven scholar 1872; fellow of Lincoln coll.
 1872–4; pupil of George Sweet the conveyancer; barrister L.I. 7
June 1873; equity draftsman and conveyancer; one of the
originators and the first chairman of the Coffee tavern company
limited 1877; published A treatise on the law and practice of lunacy
1877, 2 ed. 1890; The bills of sale act, with notes 1878. d. on board
the Rodney at sea on his way to Australia 18 Nov. 1880. Law Times
lxx 250 (1881).
POPE, J J (son of Samuel Pope of London, merchant). b.
1836; L.S.A. 1857; M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.M. 1857; senior house
surgeon Liverpool south hospital; assist. surgeon in royal artillery 1
April 1861, retired as a surgeon 1 Dec. 1873; professor of hygiene
Birkbeck institute; lecturer to National health association, lectured
throughout England and Scotland; secretary to William Holland, the
peoples’ caterer; contributed to sporting and social periodicals,
wrote in The Sporting Times under the signature of Jope, and was
the author of many of the best jokes in that paper; he wrote
Clothing, simple lessons for home use 1877; Number one and how
to take care of him, a series of popular talks 1883; Health, its
friends and foes. d. 4 South crescent, Bedford sq. London 6 April
1885. Sporting Times 11 April 1885 p. 1; Medical Times i 499
(1885), 14 March 1891 p. 2.
POPE, M . b. Settle, Yorkshire 1809; first appeared on stage at
Hastings as Mrs. Haller in the Stranger; leading actress at
Birmingham, Bristol and other places; went to America 1846,
appeared at Bowery theatre, New York as Margaret Elmore 2 Nov.
1846; made a tour in southern and western states; acted Mrs. Haller
at the Arch theatre, Philadelphia 14 Jany, 1847; the Lady Macbeth
at Astor place opera house at time of Macready-Forrest riots in New
York 7 May 1849; acted Romeo at Academy of music, New York
1852; reappeared at a benefit tendered her at Indianapolis, Indiana
25 May 1878; m. William Coleman Pope, he went mad and
committed suicide 1 June 1868; she d. Indianapolis 16 March 1880.
POPE-HENNESSY, S J (3 son of John Hennessy of
Ballyhennessy, co. Kerry). b. Cork 1834; educ. Queen’s coll. Cork;
barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1861; M.P. King s county 1859–65, being the
first Roman catholic conservative member; governor of Labuan and
consul general in Borneo 21 Nov. 1867, returned to England 2 Oct.
1871; acting governor of the Gold Coast 27 Feb. 1872 to 16 Feb.
1873; governor of the Bahamas 27 May 1873, came home on leave