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- Created 1887-1924 (Creation)
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Born in 1834; served in 8 Hussars in the Crimean War, 1853-1856, and in India, [1857]; County Councillor, Whiteparish division, Wiltshire County Council, [1891-1894]; established freehold colony at Winterslow, Wiltshire, [1892]; died in 1918.
Archival history
GB 0099 KCLMA Poore R Created 1887-1924 Collection (fonds) 1 file
Born in 1834; served in 8 Hussars in the Crimean War, 1853-1856, and in India, [1857]; County Councillor, Whiteparish division, Wiltshire County Council, [1891-1894]; established freehold colony at Winterslow, Wiltshire, [1892]; died in 1918.
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988.
Papers relating to his life and career, 1887-1924, comprising published pamphlets and articles relating to his establishment of a freehold colony at Winterslow, Wiltshire, [1892], dated 1887, 1891, 1893, 1894, [1912], 1924; correspondence relating to his candidature for a seat on Wiltshire County Council, 1888; photograph of portrait of Poore by T Binney Gibbs, 1912.
1 file
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Mainly English, but one item in French
Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
The Centre also holds the papers of his sons, Philip Poore, Lt Col Roger Alvin Poore and Brig Gen Robert Montagu Poore. Additional papers relating to Maj Robert Poore can be found at the National Army Museum (Ref: 7509-60, 61) and Wiltshire County Record Office.
Aug 1997 England Europe Government Local government Photographs Poore , Robert , 1834-1918 , Major Public administration UK Visual materials Western Europe Wiltshire Wiltshire County Council Winterslow London
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Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988.
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Papers relating to his life and career, 1887-1924, comprising published pamphlets and articles relating to his establishment of a freehold colony at Winterslow, Wiltshire, [1892], dated 1887, 1891, 1893, 1894, [1912], 1924; correspondence relating to his candidature for a seat on Wiltshire County Council, 1888; photograph of portrait of Poore by T Binney Gibbs, 1912.
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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
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- English
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- Latin
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Mainly English, but one item in French
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The Centre also holds the papers of his sons, Philip Poore, Lt Col Roger Alvin Poore and Brig Gen Robert Montagu Poore. Additional papers relating to Maj Robert Poore can be found at the National Army Museum (Ref: 7509-60, 61) and Wiltshire County Record Office.
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Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
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- English