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Walter Herries Pollock
Caricature by "Spy"[1]
Caricature by "Spy"[1]
Born(1850-02-21)21 February 1850
London, England
Died21 February 1926(1926-02-21) (aged 76)
OccupationWriter, lecturer, poet, journalist
NationalityBritish
GenreFiction, poetry, non-fiction, essay, literary criticism
Spouse
Emma Jane Pipon
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(m. 1876; died 1922)​
ChildrenGuy Cameron Pollock

Walter Herries Pollock (21 February 1850 – 21 February 1926) was an English writer, poet, lecturer and journalist. He is best known as editor of the

Saturday Review, a position he held from 1884 to 1894, but also had published various miscellaneous writings that included novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translated works between 1877 and 1920. He was also, at one time, considered one of the best amateur fencers in Great Britain.[2]

Pollock was well known in Britain's literary circles during the

Alexander Duffield, Sir Walter Besant, Andrew Lang, F. C. Grove and Camille Prévost and Lilian Moubrey
.

A member of the esteemed

Morning Post.[4]
Walter and Guy Pollock wrote a novel together in 1905.

Biography

Walter Pollock was born in London on 21 February 1850, the second son of

Queen's Remembrancer under Queen Victoria from 1874 to 1886, when the post was passed on to his brother George Frederick Pollock who continued to hold the title until the turn of the 20th century. His eldest brother, Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
, was a noted lawyer and frequently worked with him during his career.

Educated at

Saturday Review and became an assistant editor.[5] It was around this time that he began courting Emma Jane Pipon, daughter of Colonel Pipon, Seigneur de Noirmont of Jersey, and the two were married in Chester on 11 January 1876.[6] Their first and only son, Guy Cameron Pollock, was born that same year.[8]

It was while working for the publication that he first began writing professionally and co-wrote Marston: A Story of these Modern Times with Alexander J. Duffield in 1877. He also published literary critical works such as The Modern French Theatre (1878)[10] and Lectures on French Poets (1879), English-language translations of works by Alfred de Musset's and Denis Diderot, and a collection of poetic verses entitled Songs and Rhymes: English and French (1882) and Verses of Two Tongues (1884).[5][6][7]

In 1884, Pollock succeeded

extramarital affair with English hostess Violet Hunt.[12]

Another close friend and collaborator,

Haymarket Theatre.[5][6]

In 1894, Pollock left the Saturday Review[10][14] and went to live at Chawton in Hampshire to devote himself to writing full-time. He wrote novels on German student life, at least one book in French, Monsieur le Marquis de -- (1780–1793), Memoires Inédits Recueillis (1894), various plays, and also made several excursions into belles-lettres.[8] A second collaboration with Sir Walter Besant produced The Charm and Other Drawing-Room Plays (1896).[10] The next year, he co-wrote Fencing (1897) as part of the Badminton series with F. C. Grove and Camille Prévost (Pollock then being considered the finest amateur fencer in Britain)[5] as well as King and Artist: A Romantic Play in Five Acts (1897) with Lilian Moubrey.[6]

Two years later, he wrote Jane Austen: Her Contemporaries and Herself (1899),[10] considered one of the most important works of literary criticism on the female author,[14] and published a revised edition of Watts Phillips' The Dead Heart: A Story of the French Revolution (1900). He and his son Guy Cameron Pollock wrote a novel together, Hay Fever (1905),[10] and wrote biographies of two of his friends titled Impressions of Henry Irving (1908) and The Art of the Hon. John Collier (1914). His final book was Icarian Flights (1920). His wife died in 1922; afterwards she was said to have been the inspiration for his poetry.[8] Pollock lived in retirement until his own death on 21 February 1926.[7]

Fencing

Together with his elder brother

historical fencing, originated by Alfred Hutton and his colleagues Egerton Castle, Captain Carl Thimm, Colonel Cyril Matthey, Captain Percy Rolt, Captain Ernest George Stenson Cooke, Captain Frank Herbert Whittow.[15]

Bibliography

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
  1. Vanity Fair – 1892-12-31 by Leslie Ward
  2. ^ Thimm, Carl Albert.A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling, London, 1896 Fencing
  3. ^ "POLLOCK, Walter Herries". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1412.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-87745-898-7
  5. ^ a b c d e Moon, G. Washington. Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries. 13th ed. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1891. (pg. 726)
  6. ^ a b c d e f Plarr, Victor G. Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries. 15th ed. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1899. (pg. 870)
  7. ^ a b c d e Patrick, David, ed. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers Ltd., 1926. (pg. 278)
  8. ^ a b c d e f Burke, Edmund, ed. The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year 1926. Vol. 168. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1927. (pg. 123)
  9. ^ "Pollock, Walter Herries (PLK867WH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  10. ^
    ISBN 0-271-00721-4
  11. ^
    University of Texas
    . The University of Texas Studies in English. Vol. 34. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1955. (pg. 166)
  12. ISBN 0-233-98639-1
  13. ISBN 0-415-15909-1
  14. ^
    ISBN 0-389-20275-4
  15. ^ Thimm, Carl Albert. A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling, London, 1896 Preface
  16. ^ The Badminton library of sports and pastimes. With a complete bibliography of the art by Egerton Castle, Boxing by E.B. Michell, Wrestling by Walter Armstrong. With illustrations from instantaneous photograph.

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