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{{Short description|British jurist (1845–1937)}}
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| honorific_prefix   = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name               = Sir Frederick Pollock
| image              = Sir Frederick Pollock 3rd Bt.jpg
| alt                = Sir Frederick Pollock
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| other_names        = 
| education          = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
| occupation         = academic
|title               = [[ Professor of Jurisprudence (Oxford) |Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University]]
| predecessor = [[Henry Maine]]
| successor   = [[Paul Vinogradoff]]
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=yes|1845|12|10}}
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1937|01|18|1845|12|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[London]], [[England]]
| death_place        = [[London]], [[England]]
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| spouse             = {{marriage|Georgina Harriet Deffell|1876|1935|reason=her death}}
| children           = [[Sir John Pollock, 4th Baronet|John Pollock]]
| relatives          = [[Walter Herries Pollock]] (brother)
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'''Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet''' [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]], [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (10 December 1845 – 18 January 1937)<ref name="collier">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Fifoot |first=C. H. S. |editor=William D. Halsey |encyclopedia=Collier's Encyclopedia |title=Pollock, Sir Frederick |year=1976 |publisher=Macmillan Educational Corporation |volume=19 |location=New York |page=218 }}</ref> was an English jurist best known for his ''History of English Law before the Time of Edward I'', written with [[Frederic William Maitland|F.W. Maitland]], and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932; with Introduction by John Corham Palfrey |edition= 1st |volume = 1 |url= https://archive.org/details/holmespollocklet0001mark/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater|year= 1941 |url-access= registration |editor= Mark De Wolfe Howe |editor-link= Mark_Antony_De_Wolfe_Howe_(writer)|place= Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher= the Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}; {{cite book |title= Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932; with Introduction by John Corham Palfrey |edition= 1st |volume = 2 |url= https://archive.org/details/holmespollocklet0002just/page/n7/mode/2up |year= 1941 |url-access= registration |editor= Mark De Wolfe Howe |editor-link= Mark_Antony_De_Wolfe_Howe_(writer)|place= Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher= the Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}; {{cite book |title= Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932; with Introduction by John Corham Palfrey & Sir John Pollock |url= https://archive.org/details/holmespollocklet0000holm/page/n7/mode/2up|year= 1961 |url-access= registration |editor= Mark De Wolfe Howe |editor-link= Mark_Antony_De_Wolfe_Howe_(writer)|edition=2nd|place= Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher= the Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Cambridge Apostles]].

== Life ==
Pollock was the eldest son of [[Sir William Frederick Pollock, 2nd Baronet|William Frederick Pollock]], Master of the Court of Exchequer, and Juliet Creed, daughter of the Rev, Harry Creed. He was the grandson of [[Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet]], [[Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer]], the great-nephew of Field Marshal [[Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet]], and the first cousin of [[Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth]], [[Master of the Rolls]].<ref>{{cite journal |title= Obituary: Sir Frederick Pollock, K.C., "The Old Broad Culture" |journal= The Times |date=January 19, 1937 |page= 14}}</ref>

He was educated at [[Eton College]], where he was a King's Scholar, and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where he was elected Fellow in 1868 (later Honorable Fellow in 1920).<ref>{{acad|id=PLK863F|name=Pollock, Frederick}}</ref><ref name="My">''For My Grandson'' (1933) John Murray, Note B: ''Personal Dates''</ref> In 1871 he was admitted to the Bar. He wrote a series of textbooks that took a new approach to the teaching of English Law including ''The Principles of Contract at Law and in [[Equity (law)|Equity]]'' (1876) and ''The Law of [[Torts]]'' (1887).<ref name="collier"/>

Rather than relying on specific applications of law, these works emphasised underlying principles. They acted as models for future textbooks and helped modernise English legal education. Pollock taught at the University of Oxford (1883–1903),<ref name="collier"/> as [[Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence]]. He was Professor of Common Law in the Inns of Court (1884–1890).<ref name="My"/> He was Editor of the [[Law Reports]] from 1895 to 1935. He was the first editor of the ''[[Law Quarterly Review]]'' which was founded in 1885.<ref name="collier"/> He was also, in 1894, the Chairman of [[The Society of Authors]]<ref name="pollock">The Times 1 June 1894</ref> He was sworn of the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] in 1911.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28511|page=5025|date=7 July 1911}}</ref> He was elected Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn in 1931.<ref name="My"/>
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==Family==
Pollock married on 13 August 1873 to Georgina Harriet Deffell (died on 30 March 1935), a daughter of John Deffell.<!-- daughter of Richard Langslow, who lived in Heathrow House on Cain's Lane in [[Heathrow (hamlet)|Heathrow]] (a village that until 1944 was where Heathrow Airport is now). --><!-- The above statement excluded pending additional checks --> They had two children:
* Alice Isabella Pollock, born on 15 June 1876, died on 28 June 1953. Married first at [[St Marylebone Parish Church]] in London on 19 November 1902 to [[Sydney Waterlow (diplomat)|Sydney Waterlow]] (1878–1944), a diplomat and grandson of [[Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Marriages |date=12 November 1902 |page=1 |issue=36923}}</ref> This marriage was annulled in 1912, and she remarried the same year Captain Orlando Cyprian Williams, MC, CB (d.1967).
* [[Sir John Pollock, 4th Baronet|Frederick John Pollock]] (1878–1963), a noted historian, who succeeded to the baronetcy.<ref name="britannica">{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/468047/Sir-Frederick-Pollock-3rd-Baronet|title=Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet (British scholar) – Encyclopædia Britannica|publisher=britannica.com|access-date=20 September 2014}}</ref>

== Fencing ==
Together with his younger brother, [[Walter Herries Pollock]], he participated in the first English revival of [[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.<ref>Thimm, Carl Albert. ''A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling'', London, 1896 [https://books.google.com/books?id=VntzdRfNnQ4C&pg=PR9 Preface]</ref>

He was cited in an 1897 slander case involving the London Fencing Club when [[Sir John Hutton]] was sued by a French naval officer, Rene Martin Fortris, who accused Hutton of falsely stating that Fortris had been making unwelcome advances towards his daughter for two years. According to Fortris, this led to Sir Frederick Pollock and John Norbury declining his application for membership of the London Fencing Club. The jury was unimpressed by Fortris's case and found in favour of Sir John Hutton.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Action against Sir John Hutton |journal=St James's Gazette |date=16 November 1897 |page=7 |url=https://search.findmypast.co.uk/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0001485%2f18971116%2f040&stringtohighlight=john%20hutton%20slander |access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref>

==Works==
* {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/principlescontr03pollgoog#page/n5/mode/2u |title=The Principles of Contract at Law and in Equity: Being a Treatise of the General Principles Concerning the Validity of Agreements, With a Special View to the Comparison of Law and Equity, and with References to the Indian Contract Act, and Occasionally to Roman, American, and Continental Law  |edition= 1st|year= 1876 |place= London |publisher= Stevens and Sons|via= [[Internet Archive]]}}; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924017141361 9th edition, 1921].
* A Digest of the Law of Partnership. F.H. Thomas and Company, St. Louis, 1878
* {{cite book |title= The Law of Torts, a treatise on the principles of obligations arising from civil wrongs in the common law: to which is added the draft of a code of civil wrongs, prepared for the government of India |year= 1890 |edition= 2nd |place= London |publisher=Stevens and Sons, Limited  |url=https://archive.org/details/lawoftortstreati00polluoft/page/n3/mode/2up |via= [[Internet Archive]] |access-date=24 October 2020}}
* {{cite book |title= Leading Cases Done into English |year= 1876|url= https://archive.org/details/leadingcasesdon05pollgoog |place=London |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |access-date=24 October 2020 |via= [[Internet Archive]]}}; [https://archive.org/details/leadingcasesdone00poll/page/n7/mode/2up 2nd edition, 1892]
* {{cite book |title= Spinoza, His Life and Philosophy |year= 1880 |place=London |publisher=  C. Kegan Paul & Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/spinozahislifeph00polluoft |access-date=22 October 2020 |via= [[Internet Archive]]}} [https://archive.org/details/cu31924061583377 volume II]
* {{cite book |title= Essays in Jurisprudence and Ethics |publisher = Macmillan and Co.|place= London |year=1882 |url=https://archive.org/details/essaysinjurispru00polluoft/page/n5/mode/2up |access-date=22 October 2020 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite book |title= The Land Laws |edition=2nd |place=Macmillan and Co. |publisher=London and New York |year=1887 |url= https://archive.org/details/landlaws03pollgoog|access-date=24 October 2020 |via= [[Internet Archive]]}}
*{{cite book |title= Oxford Lectures and Other Discourses |year= 1890 |place= London |publisher= Macmillan and Co. |url= https://archive.org/details/rsoxfordlectures00polluoft |access-date= 22 October 2020 |via= [[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/historyenglishl04maitgoog |title= History of English Law before the Time of Edward I|year= 1895  |first2= Frederic William |last2= Maitland |author2-link= Frederic Maitland |first1= Frederick |last1=Pollock|publisher= Cambridge University Press & Little, Brown & Company|place= Cambridge & Boston |volume= I |edition= 1st|via=Internet Archive|access-date= 23 October 2020}}; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924061583377 volume II] 
* {{cite book |title= An Introduction to the History of the Science of Politics |year= 1895 |place=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co |url= https://archive.org/details/introductiontohi00pollrich/page/n7/mode/2up|access-date= 22 October 2020 |via= [[Internet Archive]]}} 
* {{cite book |title= A First Book of Jurisprudence For Students of the Common Law |year= 1896 |publisher = Macmillan and Co., Ltd. |place= London |access-date=24 October 2020 |edition=1st |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924018009542/page/n7/mode/2up |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}; [https://archive.org/details/firstbookofjuris00poll 4th edition, 1918]
* {{cite book |title= The Expansion of the Common Law |year= 1904 |place= London |publisher= Stevens and Sons, Limited |url= https://archive.org/details/expansionofcommo00polluoft/page/n3/mode/2up |access-date= 22 October 2020 |via= [[Internet Archive]] }}
* {{cite book |chapter= General Introduction |title= Encyclopædia of the Laws of England: being a New Abridgment by the Most Eminent Legal Authorities |year=1897 |editor=Benton, Alexander Wood |place=London & Edinburgh |publisher= Sweet & Maxwell; Wm. Green & Sons|volume= I |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofl01polluoft/page/xxiv/mode/2up |pages=1–13 |access-date=24 October 2020 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}
* ''The Etchingham Letters.'' Dodd, Mead & company. 1898. With [[Ella Fuller Maitland]]
* {{cite book |title= Locke's Theory of the State |publisher= for the British Academy by Henry Frowde |place= London |year= 1904 |url= https://archive.org/details/lockestheoryofst00polluoft/lockestheoryofst00polluoft/page/n3/mode/2up |accessdate= 25 August 2024}}
* {{cite EB1911|wstitle= Contract |volume= 07 |last= Pollock |first= Frederick |pages = 35&ndash;40 }}
* {{cite EB1911|wstitle= Tort |volume= 27 |last= Pollock |first= Frederick | pages = 64&ndash;66 }}
* {{cite book |title= The Genius of Common Law (Columbia University Lectures) |place= New York |publisher=The Columbia University Press|year=1912 |url=https://archive.org/details/geniusofcommonla00poll/page/n5/mode/2up|access-date= 22 October 2020|via=[[Internet Archive]]  }}
* {{Cite book |year=1914 |title=  Introduction and Notes to Sir Henry Maine's "Ancient Law"|publisher=John Murray |place=London |url= https://archive.org/details/introductionnote00polluoft |access-date= 22 October 2020 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite book |title= German "Truth" and European Facts About the War |place= London |publisher= The Central Committee for National Patriotic Organizations |url= https://archive.org/details/germantrutheurop00poll/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater |via= [[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite book |author= Committee on Alleged German Outrages ([[James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce|James Bryce]]; Frederick Pollock; [[Edward Clarke (barrister)|Edward Clarke]]; [[Kenelm Edward Digby]]; [[Alfred Hopkinson]]; [[H. A. L. Fisher]]; [[Harold Cox]]) |title=Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages Appointed by His Britannic Majesty's Government and Presided over by The Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., &c.  |publisher= Macmillan Company |year= 1915 |place= New York|url=https://archive.org/details/reportofcommitte01grea/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |via= [[Internet Archive]] |accessdate= 23 February 2024}}
* {{cite book |title= The League of Nations |publisher= Stevens and Sons, Limited |place=London |year=1920 |url= https://archive.org/details/leagueofnations00polluoft/page/n5/mode/2up |access-date=22 October 2020 |via= [[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite book |title= Essays in the Law |place= London |publisher= Macmillan and CO., Limited |year= 1922 |url= https://archive.org/details/cu31924017033832/page/n5/mode/2up |access-date= 22 October 2020 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite book |title = Outside the law: diversions partly serious |year = 1927 |place = London |publisher= Cayme Press}}
* {{cite book |title= For My Grandson, Remembrances of an Ancient Victorian |year= 1933 |url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210469/page/n5/mode/2up |place=London |publisher= John Murray|via= Internet Archive}}
===Articles===
*{{cite journal |title= Sir James Fitzjames Stephen |journal= National Review |year= August 1895 |issue =  |pages= [https://archive.org/details/sim_the-national-review-1883_1895-08_25_150/page/816/mode/2up?view=theater 817]-823 |url=  https://archive.org/details/sim_the-national-review-1883_1895-08_25_150/mode/2up?view=theater|accessdate= 15 June 2025 |via= [[Internet Archive]]}}
*{{cite journal |title= Frederic William Maitland |journal= Quarterly Review |year= April 1907 |issue = 411 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/sim_quarterly-review-1809_1907-04_206_411/page/400/mode/2up?view=theater 401]-419 |url= https://archive.org/details/sim_quarterly-review-1809_1907-04_206_411/mode/2up?view=theater |accessdate= 15 June 2025 |via= [[Internet Archive]]}}
*{{cite journal |title= James Bryce |journal= Quarterly Review |year= April 1922 |issue = 471 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/sim_quarterly-review-1809_1922-04_237_471/page/400/mode/2up?view=theater 400]-414 |url= https://archive.org/details/sim_quarterly-review-1809_1922-04_237_471/mode/2up?view=theater |accessdate= 15 June 2025 |via= [[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite web |url=  https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/5258/11p441.pdf|title= Ilbert, Courtenay Peregrine, 1841-1924 - ''Proceedings of the British Academy'' |volume= XI |pages= 441-445 |date=  |publisher= [[The British Academy]] |access-date=15 June 2025}}

== See also ==
* [[Alfred Hutton]]
* [[Historical European martial arts#Revival|HEMA]]

== Further reading ==
* {{cite ODNB |last1= Cosgrove |first1= Richard  A.|author-link=  |title= Pollock, Sir Frederick, third baronet (1845–1937) |year=2004 |url= https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35563|doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/35563|access-date=9 December 2023}} 
* {{cite book |author = G.H.J |chapter = Pollock, Sir Frederick Pollock |title=Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law |editor = Simpson, A. W. Brian |editor-link= A. W. B. Simpson|year=1984 |place=London |publisher=Butterworths |isbn=978-0-406-51657-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_n2e7|url-access=registration |pages = [https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_n2e7/page/420/mode/2up?view=theater 421]-423 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}
* {{cite web |author= Hazeltine, H.D. |author-link = Harold Dexter Hazeltine  |title= Pollock, Frederick, 1845-1937  (Founding Fellow of the British Academy 1902) |publisher= 
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy (PBA 35) |date= 1949 |accessdate= 3 July 2024 |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/memoirs/pba-35/pollock-frederick-1845-1937/ |pages= [https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/5019/35p233.pdf 232-257]}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&person=4384 Works by Sir Frederick Pollock]: at [http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=149 Online Library of Liberty]
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