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Saturday, November 19, 2022

Barbara, Baroness Poole 1934-2022

 Barbara, Baroness Poole, who died 10 November, 2022, was the third wife and widow of the 1st Baron Poole (1911-1993).

The former Barbara Anne Taylor, she was born in 1934, a daughter of Eric Albert Taylor (1907-1968), by his wife the former Dorothy Alice Woolner (1905-1979); she married 4 April, 1966, as his 3rd wife, Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole, 1st Baron Poole, CBE, TD, PC (born 11 August, 1911), son of Donald Louis Poole (1868-1921), and his wife the former Therese Lillian Frodsham (died 1969).

Her husband was Conservative MP for Oswestry, 1945-50, raised to the peerage as Baron Poole in 1958, served as joint chairman of the Conservative party in 1963. His second wife (1952-65), was Daphne Paarker Bowles (1917-95), aunt of Brig Andrew Parker Bowles (b 1939).

She was widowed 28 January, 1993.

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