Kenneth Raymond Stanley Pool was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone, Buckland Hospital, Dover, and William Harvey Hospital, Ashford. He studied medicine at King's College Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1952. He gained his FRCS in 1958. Prior to his consultant appointments he was a surgical registrar at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London, a demonstrator in anatomy at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, and a senior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at King's College Hospital, London. He was a member and then fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Kenneth Raymond Stanley Poole died in early 2005.