John Hungerford Pollen (senior)

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John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902) was an English writer on crafts and furniture.

Life[]

He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1845, with a parish in Leeds from 1847, writing of his experiences.[1][2]

He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1852.[3] He worked on numerous decorative projects in the 1850s, starting with the hall ceiling at Merton College, Oxford, where he was a Fellow from 1842; his conversion entailed his giving up that fellowship.[1]

Other works, mainly in collaboration, were on the University Museum in Oxford, and the Arthurian murals at the Oxford Union, in a group led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and including William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Val Prinsep, and Roddam Spencer Stanhope.[4]

He worked with John Henry Newman on church architecture and decoration. He was responsible for the design of the Catholic University Church in Dublin. He also worked on the Brompton Oratory.[5][6] Newman invited him to take up a position at the Catholic University of Ireland, and Pollen was Professor of Fine Arts there, from 1855 to 1857.[7]

He returned to England in 1857, settling in Hampstead, London. He worked for The Tablet, and through John Everett Millais expanded his contacts with the Pre-Raphaelite circle.[8]

Later he worked for the South Kensington Museum, where he was appointed assistant keeper in 1863, and was made editor to its science and art department, producing catalogues.[1] He compiled, with Henry Cole, a Universal Catalogue of Books on Art. This was a multi-volume project, beginning publication in 1870, its aim being to furnish a complete bibliographical record of art books in libraries of the West.[9][10]

He resigned his position at the South Kensington Museum to become private secretary to George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, whom he the accompanied on a visit to India.[11]

There is a memorial stained glass window in the north aisle of St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater by James Powell & Sons based on a sketch of Pollen's for the Chapel of Studley Royal.[12]

Works[]

Maria Hungerford Pollen (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1857)
  • Letter to the Parishioners of St. Saviour's, Leeds (1851)
  • Narrative of Five Years at St. Saviour's, Leeds (1851)
  • A Description of the Trajan Column (1874) online text
  • Ancient and modern Furniture and Woodwork (1876)
  • Gold and Silver Smiths' Work

Family[]

Architect C. R. Cockerell was his uncle.[13] He married Maria Margaret La Primaudaye in 1855. She was known as an author on lace.[14]

Of ten children, John Hungerford Pollen, Jesuit and writer, was his third child,[15] inventor Arthur Pollen was his sixth son.[16] His daughter Anna wrote a biography of her father.[11]

Further reading[]

  • Anne Pollen (1920) John Hungerford Pollen, 1820–1902

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ^ "The Oxford Movement. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 December 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Carolyne Larrington, King Arthur's Enchantresses: Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition (2006, p. 157.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "'South Kensington' and the Science and Art Department". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  7. ^ Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), p. 292.
  8. ^ Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Sidney Lee. Second Supplement. Volume 3. Neil – Young, article on Pollen.
  9. ^ "Book collections". Archived from the original on 6 May 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  10. ^ "National Art Library collection development policy: documentary materials". Archived from the original on 19 August 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b "Review of 'John Hungerford Pollen' by Anna Pollen", The Churchman, Vol. 106, Churchman Company, 1912
  12. ^ "Bayswater -St. Mary of the Angels", Taking Stock
  13. ^ "Apps – Access My Library – Gale". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  14. ^ "Maria Pollen – The Online Books Page". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  15. ^ Christian Tapp (2005). "Pollen SJ, John Hungerford". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 24. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 1166–74. ISBN 3-88309-247-9.
  16. ^ Jon Tetsuro Sumida, In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology and British Naval Policy, 1889–1914 (1993), p. 76.

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