Lieutenant-General Edward Pole (c. 1682 – 22 December 1762) was an officer of the British Army.
The third son of Samuel Pole of Radbourne Hall in Derbyshire,[1] Pole joined the Army as a second lieutenant in the Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers on 23 February 1709.[2] He served with his regiment in the Netherlands during the War of the Spanish Succession, and was present at the battle of Malplaquet in 1709.[3] The war ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and Pole was promoted to captain on 13 August 1713.[1] [4] He was actively employed in suppressing the rebellion in Scotland in 1715 and 1716; on 22 December 1726 he became captain in Humphrey Gore's Regiment of Dragoons, and on 9 March 1732 he was promoted to major.[1]
Pole was several years major in the 23rd Regiment of Foot.[3] On 18 August 1739 he was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 12th Regiment of Dragoons,[5] and on 22 December 1747 he was promoted to colonel,[1] succeeding to John Folliot's Regiment of Foot. On 10 August 1749 King George II rewarded his long and faithful service with the colonelcy of the 10th Regiment of Foot.[3] He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1757, and to that of lieutenant-general in 1759.
Lieutenant-General Pole died at Park Hall, Derbyshire, on 22 December 1762, aged eighty.[6]
His son Edward Sacheverell Pole (1718–1780) was also an army officer, serving at the Battle of Fontenoy and reaching the rank of colonel. He was grandfather of Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole.[7]