Admiralty department, subjected his Lordship to resign a station that is at once the most honourable, and the most important, at the disposal of the Board.
On the 30th July, 1814, Lord Gambier was nominated the head of a commission for negociating a treaty of peace with the plenipotentiaries duly authorized for that purpose on the part of the United States of America. The first meeting took place at Ghent on the 8th of the following month; and the preliminaries of peace were signed at the same place on the 24th Dec., and ratified at Washington, Feb. 17, 1815.
On the 7th June following, his Lordship was honoured with the insignia of a G.C.B. He married in July, 1788, Louisa, second daughter of Daniel Mathew, of Felix-hall, co. Essex, Esq.
A portrait of his Lordship, by Beechy, was exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1809.
Residence.– Iver, co. Bucks.
SIR CHARLES MORICE POLE, Bart.
Admiral of the Red; M.P. for Plymouth; a Groom of the Bed-chamber to H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence; Knight Grand Cross of the most honourable Military Order of the Bath; a Vice-President of the Naval Charitable Society; and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Three families of the name of Pole have obtained the honour of Baronetage; viz. the Poles of Shute, in Devonshire; the Poles of Walthamstow, in Essex; and the subject of the following memoir, who is a junior branch of the first-mentioned Poles, and derives his descent from Sir John Pole, the third Baronet of that line, who married Anne, youngest daughter of Sir William Morice, of Werington, co. Devon, Knt., one of the Secretaries of State to King Charles II. by whom he had four sons; the youngest of whom, Carolus, Rector of St. Breock, in Cornwall, married Sarah, eldest daughter of Jonathan Rashleigh, of Menabilly, in the same county, Esq., and left issue two sons and one daughter.
Reginald Pole, of Stoke Damarell, co. Devon, Esq., the
