Walter Herries Pollock

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 Victorian era and was close friends with a number of writers, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Egerton Castle, W. E. Henley and Henry Irving. He was also involved in collaborations with Alexander Duffield, Sir Walter Besant, Andrew Lang, F. C. Grove and Camille Prévost and Lilian Moubrey.

A member of the esteemed Pollock family, he was the second son[3] of Sir William Frederick Pollock, 2nd Baronet and brother to lawyer Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet and George Frederick Pollock. He in turn was the father of newspaperman Guy Cameron Pollock, a longtime journalist for the Evening Standard and Daily Express, and managing editor of the Morning Post.[4] Walter and Guy Pollock wrote a novel together in 1905.

  1. ^ 1892 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. ^ Pinney, Thomas, ed. The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1920-30. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990. (pg. 284) ISBN 0-87745-898-7