Notable South Australians/Rev. F. Slaney Poole, M.A.
Rev. F. Slaney Poole, M.A.
BORN at Maidstone, Kent, in 1845. At an early age went with his parents to Manchester, where he attended the ancient Grammar School of that city, presided over by Mr. F. W. Walker, the present Head Master of St. Paul's School, London. After passing from the lowest form to the highest, Mr. Poole obtained a sizarship and Somerset Exhibition at St. John's College Cambridge, where he graduated as B.A. in 1866, and M.A. in 1875. After holding an assistant mastership at Stockport Grammar School, he turned his attention to South Australia. Arrived here in 1867, and was ordained in 1868. The rev. gentleman has held the following appointments:—The incumbencies of St. Peter's, Kobe; Christ Church, Strathalbyn; and St. John's, Adelaide. He conducted for a short time the Grammar School at Mount Gambier, and was interim lecturer in classics at the Adelaide University in the year 1878. He has now been the incumbent of St. John's Church for a period of ten years, and also held a prominent position amongst the Freemasons, as the Grand Chaplain of that order in South Australia.