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Phoebe Pool was born on 1913 in London, United Kingdom, is an Art historian and spy. Discover Phoebe Pool's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?
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Art historian, Soviet spy |
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58 years old |
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1913, 1913 |
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1913 |
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London, United Kingdom |
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1 December, 1971 |
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Phoebe Pool Height, Weight & Measurements
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Gordon Desmond Pool (father)Agatha Eleanor Burrows (mother) |
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Phoebe Pool Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Phoebe Pool worth at the age of 58 years old? Phoebe Pool’s income source is mostly from being a successful historian. She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Phoebe Pool's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Phoebe Pool (1913–1971) was a British art historian and spy for the Soviet Union.
Pool was born in London in 1913, the daughter of Gordon Desmond Pool and Agatha Eleanor Burrows.
She was diagnosed with depression at an early age.
Blunt told Martin that Pool had worked as his courier in the 1930s.
MI5 arranged for Anita Brookner, another member of the Courtauld staff, to interview Pool.
Pool confirmed Blunt's story and admitted passing messages with Hart to the Floud brothers from "Otto", identified as Arnold Deutsch.
In 1931 Pool won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, entering in 1932 to study history.
In 1934, Pool was awarded the Deakin History Essay Prize, but her mental illness prevented her from taking her degree.
After leaving university, she lectured for the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) before working at Westminster Tutors, London, from 1942.
She also wrote reviews for The Spectator.
During the Second World War she worked for Air Raid Precautions.
In 1945 she published a poetry anthology, called Poems of Death.
In 1954, Pool studied Art History as an external student at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
She received a BA in 1957 with first class honours and two years later she obtained her PhD with her thesis on the literary and philosophical background to the early work of Pablo Picasso.
Her supervisor was Anthony Blunt, who was also a spy for the Soviet Union.
Blunt and Pool wrote a book together, Picasso: The Formative Years: a Study of his Sources (1962).
In 1963, Michael Straight faced a background check in response to an offer of government employment in Washington, D.C., and decided voluntarily to inform family friend and presidential special assistant Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. about his communist connections at Cambridge.
In 1964 she began lecturing part-time at the University of Reading.
This led directly to the exposure of Blunt as the recruiter of the Cambridge Five spy ring, who on 23 April 1964 admitted to Arthur S. Martin being a Soviet agent and named twelve other associates as spies including Phoebe Pool.
Her book on Impressionism from 1967 became a popular success.
Pool used the library of the Courtauld Institute of Art for most of her research.
Her writing style was simple, but not simplistic.
Phoebe Pool died by suicide in December 1971 by throwing herself under a train.
Peter Wright, the author of Spycatcher (1987), claims that Deutsch established a spy network based around the University of Oxford.
John Costello pointed out in his Mask of Treachery (1988) that "[t]his suggested that the Cambridge ring had spread its tentacles to Oxford."