Captain T S V Phillips CB

Captain T S V Phillips CB
Title:Captain
First name:T
Middle name(s):S V
Surname:Phillips
Post-nominals:CB
Year elected:1938
Last year on list:1939
MembershipNaval
Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole, 1st Baron Poole CBE TD PC (11 August 1911 – 28 January 1993), was a British Conservative Party politician, soldier and businessman.

Poole served in the Life Guards for nine months, and was commissioned as an officer in the Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1934. During the Second World War, he fought in Syria, Iraq, North Africa, Italy and North-West Europe, rising to become a colonel in the British Army on the staff of the 21st Army Group. He was thrice mentioned in despatches. He was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Member (military) on 18 February 1943, and was promoted to be an Officer (military) on 16 September that year, and Commander (military) on 11 October 1945. He was also appointed to the American Legion of Merit as a Legionnaire "in recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies" on 15 March 1945, and to the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau with Swords (denoting the military division) as a Commander on 16 January 1947.

Poole was elected Member of Parliament for Oswestry in the 1945 general election, but stood down at the 1950 general election. He was later Joint Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1952 to 1955, its Chairman from 1955 to 1957, its Deputy Chairman from 1957 to 1959, its joint chairman with Iain Macleod in 1963 and its vice-chairman from 1963 to 1964. In the 1958 Birthday Honours, he was raised to the peerage, and was gazetted on 11 July as Baron Poole, of Aldgate in the City of London. In the 1963 Birthday Honours, he was sworn of the Privy Council.

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