Pole, Rev. William

- bn Hasle, Somersetshire 1814 d. Christchurch 26 November 1879. Pastor. Churches: Lincoln Rd 1869-76; regular preacher on Canterbury Assn plan at Sheffield, South Malvern and Greendale. Pole had a Methodist background, as did a number of key leaders in Canterbury. He had been a Primitive Methodist Minister in England before coming to N.Z. and is reputed to have preached his first and last sermons in N.Z. in Methodist Chapels. Proposed the founding of the Canterbury Assn. Ref.: Obituary: The Baptist, April 1880, 46.