{{short description|English politician}} {{for|the Ebola patient|William Pooley (Ebola patient)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} '''Sir William Pooley''' (died 5 August 1629) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629.
Pooley was of Boxted, Suffolk and was knighted by James I.<ref name=Pink>[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030494987#page/n155/mode/2up William Duncombe Pink, Alfred B. Beaven ''The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c.'' (1889)]</ref> In 1621, he was elected Member of Parliament for Preston. He was elected MP for both Preston and Sudbury in 1624 and chose to sit for Sudbury. In 1626 he was elected MP for Wigan. He was elected MP for Sudbury again in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament, and then did so for eleven years.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|part=2|pages=37, 65, 112}}</ref> His daughter Judith married Sir Humphrey May.
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Preston | before= Edward Mosley | before2= Henry Banister | with= Edward Mosley | years=1621–1624 | after= Edward Mosley | after2= Sir William Hervey }} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Sudbury | before= Edward Osbourne | before2= Brampton Gurdon | with= Robert Crane | years=1624 | after= Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston | after2= Robert Crane }} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Wigan | before= Francis Downes | before2= Edward Bridgeman | with= Sir Anthony St John | years=1626 | after= Edward Bridgeman | after2= Sir Anthony St John }} {{s-bef | before= Thomas Smith | before2= Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston }} {{s-ttl | title=Member of Parliament for Sudbury | with= Robert Crane | years=1628–1629 }} {{s-non| reason= Parliament suspended until 1640}} {{s-end}}
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