Pole-star or Polaris, a star in the northern hemisphere, in Ursa Minor, the nearest conspicuous one to the N. pole of the heavens, from which it is at present 1½° distant; a straight line joining the two “pointers” in Ursa Major passes nearly through it.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pole, Reginald * Polignac, Duc de