Poore baronets  The Poore Baronetcy, of Rushall in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 8 July 1795 for John Methuen Poore, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to his brother Edward Poore and the heirs male of his body. The fifth baronet settled in Argentina. Sir Edward died in November 1893. On 4 January 1894, the following article was published in "The West Australian", under the heading "Extraordinary Career of a Baronet":  A recent issue of the ["Melbourne"] Age gives the following account of a miner who died on board the steamer Adelaide at Fremantle, recently, and whose papers and effects showed him to be Sir Edward Poore, Bart. When the steamer Adelaide on her last trip to West Australia reached Fremantle, one of the saloon passengers, a miner, who gave the name of Edward Poore, died in his cabin suddenly of heart disease. He had sufficient warning of his approaching end to call the steward to bring him pen, ink and paper, and to write down an address in Victoria to which the news of his death should be sent, but he had barely finished when he fell back dead. No one knew the man, and the authorities buried him in Fremantle. When the news of Poore's death reached his friends in Melbourne his papers and effects were examined, and they showed beyond all doubt that the deceased was Sir Edward Poore, baronet, of Rushall, in the county of Wiltshire, England. He was the third baronet, and succeeded his father on 13 October 1838, being then only 12½ years of age, as he was born on 6 March 1826. When he was 18 years of age he was appointed an ensign in the Scotch Fusilier Guards, a crack regiment, but he retired four years later. Shortly before he attained his 25th year he married Miss Frances Elizabeth Moody, daughter of the Rev. Henry Riddell Moody, rector of Chatham [sic for Chartham], Kent. In the following year he made a voyage to Canada, and a son [who later became the 4th baronet] was born to him there. In 1860 he was in France, as is shown by a passport which bears his signature, a singularly striking one, and showing little or no alteration from autographs which he executed not many weeks ago. In 1863 a son, Herbert, was born to him, and subsequently there were two daughters, Elsie and Catherine; but since then Burke's Peerage is silent to the family history - chiefly, it may be presumed, because Poore exiled himself from England about that period.