Sir John Pollock, 4th Baronet

Sir Frederick John Pollock, 4th Baronet (26 Dec 1878 – 22 July 1963) was an English historian, journalist and translator.

Sir John Pollock (1878-1963)[1]
Order of St Anna (Imperial Russia)

Life

John Pollock was the son of Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet and Georgina Harriet Deffell, younger daughter of John Deffell, of Calcutta.[2] He was educated at Eton College, graduated in 1900, and continued his education at Trinity College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts, Fellow 1902,[3] Master of Arts 1904).[4]

From 1915 to 1919, John Pollock was in Poland and Russia as chief commissioner of the Great Britain to Poland and Galicia Fund under the Russian Red Cross. He was awarded the Order of Saint Anna.[4][5]

Sir John's first wife

In 1920 he firstly married famous Russian actress Lydia Borisovna Yavorskaya (Gubbenet / Hubbenet) (1874-1921), ex-wife of writer prince Vladimir Baryatinskiy. They had no children, and next year she died.

On 28 April 1925 he married Alix Soubiran, daughter of Jean Julien I'Estom Soubiran, of Bordeaux. His wife died on 14 April 1968.

Pollock succeeded as 4th Baronet on 18 January 1937. He died on 22 July 1963 at age 84. Pollock's son, George Frederick Pollock (born 1928), a photographer and inventor, succeeded to the baronetcy.[6][7]

Works
  • The Popish Plot; A Study in the History of the Reign of Charles II (1903), London, Duckworth
  • Lord Acton at Cambridge (1904)
  • Three plays by Eugène Brieux (1911):
    • Damaged goods, translated by John Pollock
    • Maternity (new version), translated by John Pollock
  • War and Revolution in Russia (1918), London, Constable & Co Ltd
  • The Bolshevik Adventure (1919), London, Constable & Co Ltd
  • Anatole France himself: a Boswellian record by his secretary, Jean Jacques Brousson (1927, 1934), translated by John Pollock
  • The everlasting bonfire (1940), London, Chapman & Hall
  • Time's Chariot (1950)
  • Curtain up (1958), London, P. Davies
  • Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932 (1961) by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Frederick Pollock, Mark De Wolfe Howe; an introduction by John Pollock
  • Twelve One-Acters (1926) The Cayme Press (Plays)
  • Listening to Lacoste (1926) Mills & Boon (tennis)
  • Paris and Parisians (1929) Geoffrey Bles

References
  1. Three good quality photographs of Sir John - whole-plate glass negatives, dating 5 March 1920 - can be found at the National Portrait Gallery.
  2. http://www.oocities.org/nickdg_westlea/sirfrederick.html
  3. "University intelligence". The Times (36893). London. 8 October 1902. p. 4.
  4. "Pollock, Frederick John (PLK897FJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. The class of it is currently unknown, presumably 3rd class.
  6. "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
  7. Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3165.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet		 Baronet
(of Hatton) 		Succeeded by
Sir George Pollock, 5th Baronet
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