Pollock
Pollock names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Pollock born Feb. 21
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
born Feb. 21, 1850, and likewise educated at Eton and Trinity, was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1874, and 10 years later became editor of the "Saturday Review." He wrote "Lectures on French Poets," "The Picture's Secret," "Verses of Two Tongues," "A Nine Men's Morrice," "Old and New" etc. GEORGE FREDERICK POLLOCK, born in 1821, third son of the first baronet, became a master of the Supreme Court of Judicature; and the fourth son, SIR CHARLES EDWARD, born in 1823, became a baron of Exchequer and judge of the High Court. SIR GEORGE POLLOCK, field-marshal; born in Westminster June 4, 1786, and entered the army of the East India Company as lieutenant of artillery in 1803. He engaged in active warfare, in the battle and siege of Deig in Bhartpur (1804), at the siege of Bhartpur (1805), and in other operations against Holkar. Was in the Nepal (Goorkha) campaigns of 1814-1816, and in the first Burmese War (1824-1826), winning his colonelcy. In 1838 he reached the rank of majorgeneral. After the massacre of General Elphinstone and his forces in the passes of Afghanistan the Indian government decided to send a force to the relief of Sir Robert Sale, who was shut up in Jelalabad. The command of the relieving force was given to General Pollock. In April, 1842 (5th to 16th), he forced the Khyber Pass, and reached Sir Robert Sale; then, after a few months' delay he pushed on to Kabul to rescue the British prisoners in the hands of Akbar Khan. He defeated the Afghan chief at Tezeen and recovered 135 British prisoners. Then after being joined by the forces of General Nott, he successfully conducted the united armies back to India. He was rewarded with a G. C. B. and a political appointment at Lucknow. He returned to England in 1846, was director of the East India Company for a couple of years (1854-1856), and was created a field-marshal in 1870, and a baronet in 1872; in 1871 he was appointed to the honorable office of constable of the Tower. He died Oct. 6, 1872, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Pollock an illustrious family descended from David Pollock
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
an illustrious family descended from David Pollock, saddler to George III. in the later part of the 18th century, who kept a shop near Charing Cross. Three of his sons rose to eminence-SIR DAVID POLLOCK, chief justice of Bombay (died 1847); SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK; and field-marshal SIR GEORGE POLLOCK. The second, FREDERICK, was born Sept. 23, 1783, and in 1802 passed from St. Paul's School to Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1806 he graduated B. A. as senior wrangler and was elected a fellow of his college, and called to the bar at the Middle Temple. Was attorney-general ne in 1834-1835 and 1841-1844; and in the last year succeeded Lord Abinger as Chief Baron of the Exiger chequer. He had been knighted in 1834, and on his retirement in 1866 he received a baronetcy. He died Aug. 23, 1870. His eldest son, SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, born April 3, 1815, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (1832-1836), and in 1838 was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. He was appointed a master of the Court of Exchequer (1846), and Queen's Remembrancer (1874); in 1876 became senior master of the Supreme Court of Judicature; in 1886 resigned his offices. Besides a good many magazine articles, he published a blank verse translation of Dante (1854), and two pleasant volumes of "Personal Remembrances" (1887). He died Dec. 24, 1888. His oldest son, also SIR FREDER- ICK POLLOCK, third baronet; born Dec. 10, 1845, and from Eton passed to Trinity, where in 1868 he obtained a fellowship. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1871, and became professor of Jurisprudence at University College, London (1882), Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford (1883), and Professor of Common Law (1884). Beside "Spinoza; his Life and Philosophy" (1880), he published, among other valuable legal works: "Principles of Contract" (1875); "Digest of the Law of Partnership" (1877); "Law of Torts" (1887); and "Oxford Lectures" (1891). His younger brother, WALTER HERRIES
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 the third baronet, Sir Frederick Pollock, was very much alive; he died in January 1937 at 91, having kept revising the "Law of Torts" and "Principles of Contract" that Collier's lists. Those books outlived him and are still cited in English courts, and his long friendship with the American judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was published as the two-volume Holmes-Pollock Letters in 1941, which is now the writing of his that general readers are likeliest to meet. Field-marshal Sir George Pollock's 1842 march through the Khyber to Kabul, described here as a rescue of prisoners, is treated by modern historians under the name it was given at the time, the Army of Retribution, with attention to the burning of Kabul's Great Bazaar that the old account passes over. One thing the entry could not foresee: to most readers today the name means the American painter Jackson Pollock, born in Wyoming in 1912, no relation to this legal dynasty.
Written for this edition, 2026.