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Rh eldest son, married Anne, second daughter of John Francis Buller, of Morvall, in Cornwall, Esq. by whom he had three sons and two daughters: viz. 1. Reginald ; 2. Charles Morice, born at Stoke Damarell, co. Devon, Jan. 18, 1757; and 3. Edward, who is married, and has issue. The daughters were; Anne, who married Charles, the first Lord Somers; and Sarah, who married Henry Hippisley Coxe, of Stone Easton, in Somersetshire, Esq. and died without issue.

Charles Morice Pole, the second son, being intended for the sea service, and having received a suitable education at that excellent institution the Royal Naval College, at Portsmouth, embarked as a Midshipman, with Captain Locker, the late Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, in the Thames frigate, in 1772 he afterwards served in the Salisbury, of 50 guns, with Sir Edward Hughes, whom he accompanied to the East Indies; where he received his promotion to a Lieutenancy in the Seahorse frigate, from which ship he was removed into the Rippon, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Vernon, and was engaged in the indecisive actions fought between that officer and Mons. Tranjolly. He was also employed in the command of a body of seamen and marines, at the siege of Pondicherry, the capital of the