Lane Poole rediscovered the identity of Henry Symeonis, a 13th-century figure whom Oxford students had had to swear not to forgive for centuries after forgetting who he was.

Life

The second of three children (two sons and a daughter) of Edward Stanley Poole (1830-1867) and his wife, Roberta Elizabeth Louisa (1828-1866), daughter of Charles Reddelien, a naturalized German, the "Lane" in his surname comes from his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole,

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