Sir John Pollock, 4th Baronet
Sir John Pollock, 4th Baronet (26 December 1878 – 22 July 1963), was an English historian, journalist and translator. He was the son of Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet, and Georgina Harriet Deffell. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a BA, became a Fellow in 1902, and received an MA in 1904.
From 1915 to 1919 he served as the chief British representative to the Poland and Galicia Fund under the Russian Red Cross in Poland and Russia, and he was awarded the Order of Saint Anna. In 1920 he married Lydia Borisovna Yavorskaya, a famous Russian actress and ex-wife of Prince Vladimir Baryatinskiy; they had no children and she died in 1921. In 1925 he married Alix Soubiran, daughter of Jean Julien I’Estom Soubiran of Bordeaux; she died in 1968.
Pollock became the 4th Baronet on 18 January 1937. He died on 22 July 1963, aged 84. His son, George Frederick Pollock (1928–2016), a photographer and inventor, succeeded to the baronetcy.
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