Lot Essay
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hutcheson Poë, Bt., [C.B.], was born in Donaghadee, County Down in 1848, and was educated privately and at the Royal Naval Academy, Gosport. Commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry during the course of 1867, he served in H.M.S. Royal Sovereign on the North American and West Indian Stations, until appointed to the command of the R.M. Detachment on Ascension Island in 1878. Poë returned to seagoing duties with command of the R.M. Detachment in the Boadicea on the Cape of Good Hope Station between 1880-81.
The advent of hostilities in Egypt and the Sudan witnessed his return to land-based duties, and he was appointed to the command of two R.M. Companies attached to the Guards Camel Corps, seeing action at the Battle of El-Teb, where he was wounded and Mentioned in Despatches. A second 'Mention' followed for his services at Metemmah, in which action he was again wounded and lost his right leg. Ultimately the recipient of a three-clasp Egypt Medal for 'El Teb', 'The Nile 1884-85' and 'Abu Klea', Poë was created a C.B. in 1885.
Next employed by the Naval Intelligence Department, between 1886-88, he was placed on the Retired List as a Lieutenant-Colonel, R.M. in the latter year. But the advent of hostilities witnessed his return to military circles, initially on attachment to the Naval Medical Bureau in Egypt between 1915-16, and latterly with the French Red Cross between 1916-19, services that resulted in him being awarded the Reconnaissance Medal, Second Class.
Poë, who had been created a Baronet back in 1912, held a number of senior offices in Ireland from the date of his retirement in the 1880s up until his death in 1934, among them Governor of the National Gallery of Ireland and H.M. Lieutenant for Queen's County. He also served as a Senator of the Irish Free State between 1922-25.
The advent of hostilities in Egypt and the Sudan witnessed his return to land-based duties, and he was appointed to the command of two R.M. Companies attached to the Guards Camel Corps, seeing action at the Battle of El-Teb, where he was wounded and Mentioned in Despatches. A second 'Mention' followed for his services at Metemmah, in which action he was again wounded and lost his right leg. Ultimately the recipient of a three-clasp Egypt Medal for 'El Teb', 'The Nile 1884-85' and 'Abu Klea', Poë was created a C.B. in 1885.
Next employed by the Naval Intelligence Department, between 1886-88, he was placed on the Retired List as a Lieutenant-Colonel, R.M. in the latter year. But the advent of hostilities witnessed his return to military circles, initially on attachment to the Naval Medical Bureau in Egypt between 1915-16, and latterly with the French Red Cross between 1916-19, services that resulted in him being awarded the Reconnaissance Medal, Second Class.
Poë, who had been created a Baronet back in 1912, held a number of senior offices in Ireland from the date of his retirement in the 1880s up until his death in 1934, among them Governor of the National Gallery of Ireland and H.M. Lieutenant for Queen's County. He also served as a Senator of the Irish Free State between 1922-25.