Education
Pooley was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Pooley was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
From 1946 to 1953 he was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He was created a baronet, of Westbrook House in the Parish of Tillington in the County of Sussex, in January 1953. He published The Guilds Of The City Of London in 1947.
Pooley died in February 1966, aged 89, when the baronetcy became extinct.