Austin Lane Poole, FBA (6 December 1889 โ 22 February 1963) was a British mediaevalist. Poole came from an academic lineage, being the son of Reginald Lane Poole (archive keeper at the University of Oxford), the nephew of Stanley Lane Poole (professor of Arabic at Trinity College Dublin), and the great-nephew of Reginald Stuart Poole (professor of archaeology at Cambridge University). During the First World War, Poole served as a lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment.