 Four of Pounds' sisters (Lily, Louie – a successful actress in her own right – Nancy, and Rosy) also appeared with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.Pounds was married to D'Oyly Carte performer Jessie Louise Murray Wilson (1861–1953) in 1883, They had no children.He never divorced his wife, but the W. S. Gilbert scholar Brian Jones states that Pounds "seems to have had a roving eye".