POOLE
,
EDWIN
(
1851
-
1895
),
journalist, printer, and local historian
;
b.
28 Feb. 1851
, at
Oswestry
. About
1866
he went to
Brecon
to work in the
Brecon County Times
office, but in
1889
he started the
Brecon and Radnor Express
, which he
edited
. He interested himself in the history of
Brecon
and of
Brecknock
, and published a number of books, of which the best-known are
History of the Breconshire Charities
(
1880
),
Military Annals of the County of Brecknock
(
1885
),
The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire
(
1886
), and
John Penry
(
1893
). He also brought out a short-lived but very useful antiquarian journal,
Old Brecon Chips
(
1886-8
). He d.
15 April 1895
.
Bibliography:
-
Bye–Gones, relating to Wales and the Border
Counties
,
1895
, 83;
-
Cardiff Free Libraries, Catalogue of Printed
Literature in the Welsh Department
, 1898
;
-
The Brecon and Radnor Express
,
15 April 1895.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
