Bertram Pollock Vanity Fair 9 October 1902

Bertram Pollock (6 December 186317 October 1943) was an Anglican

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in the first half of the 20th century. Born in

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, on 6 December 1863 to

George Frederick Pollock George Frederick Pollock (1 June 1821 – 19 May 1915) was a British barrister and Master of the Supreme Court. The third son of the judge Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, George Frederick Pollock was called to the Bar in 1843, when his fathe ...

— a barrister and

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and

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— and his wife Frances, Bertram was the youngest of five sons, and also had a younger sister. His brother

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, a

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MP and

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, was created Viscount Hanworth in 1936. George Frederick was the third son of Frederick Pollock, 1st

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, of a family descended from David Pollok (sic) of that Ilk (died 1546), a member of the Scottish Clan Pollock. (Cited a
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which accessed 21 May 2019) The Montagu-Pollock baronets descend from Frederick's younger brother, George. Bertram was educated at Charterhouse and

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. He was

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in the

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— made a

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1890 (21 December) and ordained a

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the Advent following (20 December 1891), both times by

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. He was a Master and

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at Marlborough and later

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of Wellington College (1893–1910). There, one of his students was the author

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, who considered Pollock one of "the two who have influenced my intelligence" and "the most fascinating man I shall ever meet." An

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, he was appointed to the

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in 1910, a post he held for 32 years. He was consecrated a bishop on St Mark's Day 1910 (25 April), by

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, Archbishop of Canterbury, at

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. An author, he died on 17 October 1943,''Obituary: Dr Bertram Pollock''

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Monday, 18 October 1943; p. 4; Issue 49679; col G leaving his wife Joan Florence Helena (they married 11 October 1928; she was daughter of Algernon Charles Dudley Ryder and a scion of the Earls of Harrowby), and a daughter, (Mary) Rosalind Frances Felicia (born 24 April 1931). Bertram was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1921 and a

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(DD).

Works

*''Good Men Without Faith'', 1923 *''The Church and English Life'', 1932 *''The Nation and the Nation's Worship'', 1933 *''Church and State'', 1936

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pollock, Bertram 1863 births Anglican clergy from London People from Feltham 1943 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Honorary Chaplains to the King Bishops of Norwich 20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Masters of Wellington College, Berkshire 19th-century Anglican theologians 20th-century Anglican theologians