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Former Pupil Biographies

Dr William Poole ( - current)

Will Poole attended Madras College between 1989 to 1995, one of four siblings at the school. He started University in Oxford at New College and Linacre College between 1995 and 2000, gaining the degrees of BA, MA, MSt and DPhil.

Between 2000 and 2004 he was a Research Fellow at Downing College Cambridge before returning to New College, Oxford as John Gainsworthy Fellow in English. He is also a Senior Tutor and Fellow Librarian.

His research interests include:

•  Literary history
•  Intellectual history
•  History of science
•  Bibliography and palaeography
•  History of libraries and collections

So far he has published around a hundred articles or chapters for learned collections or journals; he is co-editor of the Bibliographical Society's quarterly Journal 'The Library'.

Books include:

• John Milton, Manuscript Writings (2018)
• John Fell’s New Year Books, 1666–1686 (2018)
• John Wilkins 1614–1672: New Essay (2017)
• Milton and the Making of ‘Paradise Lost’ (2017)
• The Letters of Shen Fuzong to Thomas Hyde, 1687-88’ (2015)
• Wadham College Books in the Age of John Wilkins 1614–1672 (2014)
• John Milton, Areopagitica and Other Writings. (2014)
• John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning (2010)
• The World-Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth (2010)
• Francis Lodwick, Writings on Language, Theology, and Utopia, ed. Henderson and Poole (2010)
• Milton and the Idea of the Fall (2005)
• Francis Godwin, The Man in the Moone 1638 (2009)